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The Constitution 



Society of Sons of the Revolution 



By-Laws and Register 



New York Society 



NEW YORK : 

Faxhangk Printing Company. 

1892. 



OFFICERS 



GENERAL SOCIETY. 



General President, 

HON. JOHN LEE CARROLL, 

Of the District of Columbia Society. 

General Vice-President, 
HON. WILLIAM WAYNE, 

Of the Pennsylvania Society. 

General Secretary, 

JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY, 

Of the New York Society. 

General Assistant Secretary, 
TIMOTHY MATLACK CHEESMAN, M. D. 

Of the New York Society. 

General Treasurer, 
RICHARD McCALL CADWALADER, 

Of the Pennsylvania Society. 

General Assistant 'Ira/sura-. 

ARTHUR HENRY DUTTON, 

Of the District of Columbia Society. 

General Chaplain, 

REV. DANIEL CONY WESTON, D. D.„ 

Of the New York Society. 

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NEW YORK SOCIETY 



Instituted - February 22, 187C. 

Reorganized - - - December 4, 1883. 

Incorporated under the Laws of t 

£ May 3, 1884. 
the State of New York, ^ 



incorpora tors. 

John Austin Stevens, 

John Cochrane, 

Austin Huntington, 
*George H. Potts, 

Frederick Samuel Tallmadge, 
*George Washington Wright Houghton, 

Asa Bird Gardiner, 

Thomas Henry Edsall, 
* Joseph W. Drexel, 

James Mortimer Montgomery, 

James Duane Livingston, 

.1. Bleecker Miller, 

Alexander R. Thompson, Jr. 

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OFFICERS OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FROM ITS 

REORGANIZATION, DECEMBER 4, 1883. 

& 

Elected. PRESIDENTS. Retired 

1883 John Austin Stevens, 1834 

1884 Frederick Samuel Tallmadge, 

vice-presidents. 

1883 John Cochrane, 1884 

1884 Thomas Henry Edsall, 1886 
1886 Elbridge T. Gerry, 1888 
1888 Floyd Clarkson, 

secretaries. 

1883 Austin Huntington, 1884 

1884 *George Washington Wright Houghton, 1386 
1886 James Mortimer Montgomery, 

assistant secretary'. 
1891 Edward Trenchard, 

TREASURERS. 



1883 


*George H. Potts, 


1885 


1885 


F. J. Huntington, 


1885 


1885 


Austin Huntington, 


1386 


1886 


Asa Coolidge Warren, 


1887 


1887 


Arthur Melvin Hatch, 

REGISTRARS. 




1887 


Asa Coolidge Warren, 


1889 


1889 


Henry Thayer Drowne, 


1891 


1891 


Charles Isham, 

HISTORIANS. 


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1888 


Austin Huntington, 


1889 


1889 


John Canfield Tomlinson, 


1891 


1891 


Henry Wyckofp Le Roy, 

CHAPLAINS. 




1889 


Rev. Daniel Cony Weston, D. D., 


1839 


1889 


Rev. Brockfiolst Morgan, 






SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF NEW YORK. 

Instituted - - Febki-aky 32, 1876. 

Reorganized - December 4. 1883. 

Incorporated under the Laws of the State of New York • - May 3. 1884. 



OFFICERS. 
President. 
FREDERICK SAMUEL TALLMADGE. - 165 Broadway, New York. 

Vicc-Prfisi'lt at. 
Bvt. Lt.-Col. FLO VI) CLARKSON, - - 39 Broadway, New York. 

Secretary. 
JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY. - 56 Wall Street, New York. 

Assistant S cretary. 
EDWARD TRENCHARD, - ----- 00 Wall Street. New York. 

Treasim r. 
ARTHUR MELVIN HATCH, - - - - 14 Nassau Street, New York. 



Boahd of Managers; 

ASA BIRD GARDINER, LL. I).. 

BRADISH JOHNSON, Jr., 

CHARLES HORNBLOWER WOODRUFF, 

WILLIAM CARPENDER, 

ROBERT LENOX BELKNAP, 

ROBERT OLYPJIAXT. 

JOHN CANFIELD TOMLINSON, 

GOUVERNEUR M. *MITH, M. D.. 

WILLIAM GASTON HAMILTON. 



llegirtntr. Historbm. 

CHAHLES ISIIAM. HENRY WYCKOFF Le ROY 

Chaplain. 
Rev. BROCKHOLST MORGAN. 

Office of the Society, 56 Wall Street. 

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DELEC4ATES TO THE GENERAL SOCIETY. 

ROBERT LENOX BELKNAP, 

TALBOT OLYPHANT, 

JOHN CANFIELD TOMLINSON, 

WILLIAM CARPENDER, 

CHARLES HORNBLOWER WOODRUFF. 

Alternates. 

Hon. JOHN ALSOP KING. 

JOHN LAWRENCE, 

S. VICTOR CONSTANT, 

SATTERLEE SWARTWOUT (of Connecticut), 

TIMOTHY MATLACK CHEESMAN, M. D. 



Hale Monument Committee. 

WILLIAM GASTON HAMILTON, Chairman. 

FREDERICK SAMUEL TALLMADGE, ex-officio, 
GEORGE CLINTON GENET, JOHN CLARKSON JAY, M. D., 

HENRY WYCKOFF Le ROY, FRANCIS LATHROP, 

JAMES MORTIMER MONTGOMERY, Treasurer. 



Willett Memorial Committee. 

DANIEL BUTTERFIELD, Chairman. 
FLOYD CLARKSON. Rev. MORGAN DIX, D. D., 

JOHN AUSTIN STEVENS, DAVID WOLFE BISHOP. 

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SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

Instituted April 3, 1888. 
Incorporated under the Laws or the State of Pennsylvania September 29, 1890. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
Hon. WILLIAM WAYNE, - - - Paoli, Pa. 

Vice-President. 
RICHARD McCALL CADWALADER, 710 Walnut[Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Secretary. 
GEORGE HORACE BURGIN, M. D., Chilton Avenue, Germantown, Pa. 

Treasurer. 
ROBERT PORTER DECHERT, - - 406 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Registrar. 
JOHN WOOLF JORDAN, - - - 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Historian. 
JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH, - - 733 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Chaplain. 
Rev. GEORGE WOOLSEY HODGE, - 334 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Board of Managers. 
Bvt. -Major JAMES EDWARD CARPENTER, 
ISAAC CRAIG, 

WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M. D., 
Rev. HORACE EDWARD HAYDEN, 
WILLIAM MACPHERSON HORNOR, 
CHARLES HENRY JONES, 
ELON DUNBAR LOCKWOOD," 
THOMAS McKEAN, 
Hon. SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER. LL. D. 

Delegates to the General Society. 
HERMAN BURGIN, M.D., Bvt.-Maj. JAMES EDWARD CARPENTER, 

JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH, Hon. CLIFFORD STANLEY SIMS. 
Hon. SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER, LL. D. 
Alternates. 
THOMAS HEWSON BRADFORD, M.D., 
ARTHUR VINCENT MEIGS, M.D., 
JOHN CADWALADER, 

Hon. JAMES TYNDALE MITCHELL, LL. D.. 
GEORGE RANDOLPH SNOWDEN. 
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SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Instituted March 11, 188?. 
Incorporated under the Laws of the United States December, 1 



PFICERS. 

President. 

Hon. JOHN LEE CARROLL, Washington, D. C. 

Vice-President. 
Rear Admiral FRANCIS ASBURY ROE, U. S. Navy. 

Secretary, 
PICKERING DODGE, 1827 Jefferson Avenue. Washington, 1). C. 

Treasurer. 
ALEXANDER BROWN LEGARE, 1728 I Street, Washington, D. C 

Registrar and Historian. 
GAILLARD HUNT, 1460 Rhode Island Avenue 

Chaplain. 
Rev. GEORGE WILLIAM DOUGLAS. D. D. 



Board of Managers. 

LEWIS JOHNSON DAVIS, 

Rear Admiral SAMUEL RHOADES FRANKLIN, U. S. Navy, 

Commodore JAMES AUSTIN GREER, U. S. Navy, 

ARCHIBALD HOPKINS, 

ALBION K. PARRIS, 

CHARLES WORTHINGTON. 

B. LEWIS BLACKFORD, 

H. B. CILLEY. 

Delegates to the General Society. 

Hon. JOHN LEE CARROLL. 

Rear Admiral SAMUEL RHOADES FRANKLIN. U. S. Navy, 

Captain DANIEL MORGAN TAYLOR, U. S. Army, 

CHARLES WORTHINGTON, 

Bvt. Major-General NICHOLAS LONGWORTH ANDERSON. 

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SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THB 

STATE OF IOWA. 

Instituted April 19, 1890. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

Right Rev. WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY, D. D. (Oam.), LL. D., D. C. L., 

Bishop of Iowa. 

Vice-President. 
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, Davenport, Iowa. 



EDWARD SEYMOUR HAMMATT, Davenport, Iowa, 

Treasurer. 

ESEK STEERE BALLORD, Davenport, Iowa. 

Chaplain. 

Very Rev. CHARLES REUBEN HALE, D. D., LL. D., Davenport, Iowa. 

Registrar and Historian. 

JOHN HUBBARD STURGIS, Burlington, Iowa. 



Board of Managers. 

Rt. Rev. WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY, CHARLES WHITAKEH, 

SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, HUITT ROSS, 

EDWARD SEYMOUR HAMMATT. EDWARD HAMLIN HA ZEN, 

ESEK STEERE BALLORD, WILLIAM PERRY BRADY, 

Very Rev. CHARLES REUBEN HALE, Rev. PETER CLARK WOLCOTT, 

JOHN HUBBARD STURGIS. JOHN ELY BREADY, 

Rev. WILLIAM SALTER, ENOCH MEAD. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

Rt. Rev. WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY, WILLIAM PERRY BRADY, 
EDWARD SEYMOUR HAMMATT. 

Alternates. 
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, ESEK STEERE BALLORD, 

ENOCH MEAD. 

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SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 

Instituted January 6, 1391. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

Hon. S. MEREDITH DICKINSON, Trenton, N. J. 

Vice-President. 

CLEMENT H. SINNICKSON, Salem, N. J. 

Secretary. 

JOHN ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Trenton, N. J. 

Treasurer. 

HUGH HENDERSON II A MILL. Trenton. N. J. 

Registrar. 

FOSTER CONARROE GRIFFITH, Trenton. N. J. 

Historian . 

MORRIS HANCOCK STRATTON, Salem. N. J. 

Board of Managers. 

Hon. GEORGE MAXWELL ROBESON, 

GARRETT DORSET WALL VROOM, 

BAYARD STOCKTON, 

CHRISTOPHER H. BERGEN, 

PETER L. VOORHEES, 

Bvt. Brig. -Gen. S. DUNCAN OLIPHANT. 

HUGH HENDERSON HAMILL. 

WILLIAM JOHN POTTS, 

WILLIAM ELMER, M. D. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

Hon. GEORGE MAXWELL ROBESON, 

WILLIAM JOHN POTTS, 

Bvt. Brig. -Gen. S. DUNCAN OLIPHANT. 

MALCOLM MacDONALD, 

PETER L. VOORHEES. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IS THE 

STATE OF GEORGIA. 

Instituted May 32, 180). 

OFFICEHS. 

President. 

Colonel JOHN SCREVEN. 

Vice-President. 

JOSEPH GASTON BULLOCH, M. D. 

Secretary. 

WILLIAM HARDEN, 59 Gordon Street, Savannah. Ga. 

Assistant Seen tary 9 

GEORGE M. GADSDEN. 

Treasurer. 

WARING RUSSELL. 

Registrar. 

JOHN SULLIVAN SCHLEY. 

Chaplain. 

Rev. LACHLAN C. VASS, D. D. 



Board op Managers. 

Hon. WILLIAM DEARING HARDEN, THOMAS F. SCREVEN, 

PHILIP M. RUSSELL, GRANTHAM I. TAGGART, 

JOHN S. SHIVERS, FRANCIS S. LATHROP, 

WILLIAM DANIEL GRANT (Atlanta), BEIRNE GORDON. 

AUGUSTUS OEMLER. 



Delegates to the General Society. 

Hon. WILLIAM DEARING HARDEN, WILLIAM HARDEN. 
WILLIAM DANIEL GRANT (Atlanta), Rev. LACHLAN C. VASS, D. D., 
Col. JOHN SCREVEN. 

Alternate?. 

THOMAS PINCKNEY HUGER, GEORGE M. GADSDEN. 

HARVEY JOHNSON (Atlanta), HUGH V. WASHINGTON (Macon), 

JOSEPH G. BULLOCH, M. D. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

Organized in Faneuil Hall October 1, 1891. 
Incorporated under the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts October 9, 1691. 



OFFICERS. 

President. 

WILLIAM LEVERETT CHASE. 

Vice-President. 

HAZARD STEVENS. 

Treasurer. 

FRANK HARRISON BRIGGS, 45 High Street, Boston. 

Secretary. 

HENRY DEXTER WARREN, Hotel Berkeley, Boston. 

Registrar. 

WALTER KENDALL WATKINS. 

Historian. 

FRANCIS ELLINGWOOD ABBOTT, LL. D. 



Board of Managers. 
Professor EBEN NORTON HORSFORD, WALTER OILMAN PAGE, 
ANDREW ROBESON, WINTHROP WETHERBEE, 

WILLIAM CURTIS CAPELLE, GILBERT HODGES, 

ARTHUR HENRY DUTTON, THEODORE HAROLD CLAPP, 

CHARLES HOWARD BAILEY, Jr. 



Delegates to the General Society. 
WILLIAM LEVERETT CHASE, 
FRANCIS ELLINGWOOD ABBOTT, LL. D., 
ANDREW ROBESON, 
ALFRED BROOKS FRY. 

Alternates. 
Right Reverend PHILLIPS BROOKS, Bishop of Diocese of Massachusetts, 
Reverend EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D. D., LL. D., 
Professor EBEN NORTON HORSFORD, 
HOWARD EATON HAYDEN. 

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THE NAME OF WASHINGTON. 

Sons of the youth and the truth of the nation, — 

Ye that are met to remember the man 
Whose valor gave birth to a people's salvation, — 
Honor him now ; set his name in the van. 
A nobleness to try for, 
A name to live and die for — 
The name of Washington ! 

Calmly his face shall look down through the ages - 

Sweet yet severe with a spirit of warning ; 
Charged with the wisdom of saints and of sages ; 
Quick with the light of a life-giving morning. 
A majesty to try for, 
A name to live and die for — 
The name of Washington ! 

Though faction may rack us, or party divide us. 

And bitterness break the gold links of our story. 
Our father and leader is ever beside us. 

Live and forgive ! But forget not the glory 
Of him whose height we try for; 
A name to live and die for — 
The name of Washington ! 

Still in his eves shall be mirrored our fleeting 
Days, with the image of days long ended ; 
Still shall those eyes give, immortally, greeting 
Unto the souls from his spirit descended. 
II is grandeur we will try for ; 
His name we'll live and die for — 
The name of Washington ! 

Geo. Parsons Lath hop. 

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Certificate of Incorporation. 

State of New York, j 

City and County of New Youk, \ ss " 

We, John Austin Stevens, John Cochrane, Austin Huntington, George 
II. Potts, Frederick S. Tallmadge, Joseph H. Drexel, George W. W. 
Houghton, Asa Bird Gardiner, Thomas H. Edsall, James M. Montgomery, 
James Duaue Livingston, John Bleecker Miller, and Alexander R. Thomp- 
son, Jr., all being residents of the State of New York, do hereby certify 
that we desire to form a Society, pursuant to the provisions of an Act 
entitled "An Act for the incorporation of Societies or Clubs for certain 
lawful purposes, " passed by the Legislature of the State of New York, May 
12th, 1875, and of the several Acts extending and amending said Act. 

That the corporate name of the said Society is to be "Sons of the 
Revolution." 

That the objects of said Society are social and patriotic, and that said 
Society is to be formed for the purpose of perpetuating among their descend- 
ants the memory of the brave men who periled their lives and interests in 
the war of the Revolution to wrest the American Colonies from British 
dominion. 

That the number of the managers who shall direct the concerns of said 
Society shall be thirteen. 

That the names of such managers for the first year are John Austin 
Stevens, John Cochrane, Austin Huntington, George H. Potts, Frederick 
S. Tallmadge, Joseph W. Drexel, George W. W. Houghton, Asa Bird 
Gardiner, Thomas H. Edsall, James M. Montgomery, James Duane Living- 
ston, John Bleecker Miller, and Alexander R. Thompson. Jr. 

That the principal office of said Society is to be in the city of New York. 

In witness whereof, we have hereunto, and to the duplicate hereof, set 

our hands and affixed our seals this twenty-ninth day of April, 1884. 

In presence of as to all but John Austin Stevens, j l. 8. | 

John Bleecker Miller, John Cochrane, [l. s.] 

Edward H. Strobel. Austin Huntington, [l. s.J 

George H. Potts, [l. s.] 

As to John Bleecker Miller, Fredericks. Tallmadge, [l. s.J 

Fredk. E. Fisiiel. George W. W. Houghton, [l. s.] 

x\.sa Bird Gardiner, [l. s.J 

Thomas H. Edsall, [l. s.] 

Joseph W. Drexel, [l. s.J 

James Mortimer Montgomery, [l. s.] 

James Duane Livingston, [l. s.J 

Alexander R. Thompson, Jr., [l. s.] 

John Bleecker Miller. [l. s.] 



State op New York, i 

City and County of New York, \ 



On this 29th day of April, 1884, before me personally appeared John 
Austin Stevens, John Cochrane, Austin Huntington, George H. Potts, 
Frederick S. Tallmadge, George W. W. Houghton, Joseph W. Drexel, 
Asa Bird Gardiner, Thomas II. Edsall, James Mortimer Montgomery, James 
Duane Livingston, and Alexander R. Thompson, Jr., to me known to be 
twelve of the individuals described in and who executed the foregoing 
certificate, and they severally before me signed the said certificate, and 
acknowledged that they executed the same for the purposes therein men- 
tioned. 

Edward II. Strobel. 

Notary Public, 

New York County. 



State op New York, i 

City and County op New York, \ ss " 

On this 1st day of May, 1884, before me personally appeared John 
Bleecker Miller, to me known to be one of the individuals described in and 
who executed the foregoing certificate, and he, before me, signed the said 
certificate, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes 
therein mentioned. 

Fredk. E. Fishel, 

Notary Public, 

Suffolk County. 
Certificate filed ia New York County. 



[endorsed.] 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. 

I hereby approve of the incorporation of the Society of the "Sons of the 
Revolution," and consent that the within Certificate of Incorporation be 
filed. 

George C. Barrett, J. 
New York City, May 2, 1884. 

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THE 



Constitution of the General Society, 



It being evident, from a steady decline of a proper celebra- 
tion of the National holidays of the United States of Amer- 
ica, that popular concern in the events and men of the war 
of the Revolution is gradually declining, and that such lack 
of interest is attributable, not so much to the lapse of time 
and the rapidly increasing flood of immigration from foreign 
countries, as to the neglect on the part of descendants of 
Revolutionary heroes to perform their duty in keeping be- 
fore the public mind the memory of the services of their 
ancestors and of the times in which they lived ; therefore, 
the Society of the Sons of the Revolution has been instituted 
to perpetuate the memory of the men, who, in the military, 
naval and civil service of the Colonies and of the Conti- 
nental Congress, by their acts or counsel, achieved the Inde- 
pendence of the country, and to further the proper celebra- 
tion of the anniversaries of the birthday of Washington, 
and of prominent events connected with the war of the Rev- 
olution ; to collect and secure for preservation the rolls, 



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records and other documents relating to that period ; to 
inspire the members of the Society with the patriotic spirit 
of their forefathers ; and to promote the feeling of friend- 
ship among them. 

The General Society shall be divided into State Societies, 
which shall meet annually on the day appointed therefor in 
their respective by-laws, and oftener if found expedient ; 
and at such annual meeting the reasons for the institution 
of the Society shall be considered, and the best measures for 
carrying them into effect adopted. 

The State Societies at every annual meeting shall choose 
a president, a vice-president, a secretary, a registrar, a treas- 
urer, a chaplain, and such other officers as may by them 
respectively be deemed necessary, and a board of managers, 
all of whom shall retain their respective positions until their 
successors are duly chosen. 

Each State Society shall cause to be transmitted annu- 
ally or oftener to the other State Societies, a circular letter 
calling attention to whatever may be thought worthy of 
observation respecting the welfare of the Society or of the 
general union of the States, and giving information of the 
officers chosen for the year ; and copies of these letters shall 
also be transmitted to the General Secretary to be preserved 
among the records of the General Society. 

The State Societies shall regulate all matters respecting 
their own affairs, consistent with the general good of the 
Society ; judge of the qualification of their members or of 
those proposed for membership, subject, however, to the pro- 
visions of this Constitution ; and expel any member, who, 
by conduct unbecoming a gentleman or a man of honor, 
or by an opposition to the interests of the community in 
general or of the Society in particular, may render himself 
unworthy to continue in membership. 



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In order to form funds that may be respectable, each mem- 
ber shall contribute upon his admission to the Society and 
annually thereafter, such sums as the by-laws of the respec- 
tive State Societies may require ; but any of such State 
Societies may provide for the endowment of memberships 
by the payment of proper sums in capitalization, which 
sums shall be properly invested as a permanent fund, the 
income only of which shall be expended. 

The regular meeting of the General Society shall be held 
every three years, and special meetings may be held upon 
the order of the General President or upon the request of 
two of the State Societies, and such meetings shall consist 
of the General Officers and a representation not exceeding 
five deputies from each State Society, and the necessary 
expenses of such meeting shall be borne by the State So- 
cieties. 

At the regular meeting, a General President, Vice-Presi- 
dent, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant 
Treasurer, and Chaplain shall be chosen by a majority of 
the votes present, to serve until the next regular general 
meeting, or until their successors are duly chosen. 

At each general meeting the circular letters which have 
been transmitted by the several State Societies shall be con- 
sidered, and all measures taken which shall conduce to the 
general welfare of the Society. 

The General Society shall have power at any meeting to 
admit State Societies thereto, and to entertain and determine 
all questions affecting the qualifications for membership in 
or the welfare of any State Society as may by proper 
memorial be presented by such State Society for considera- 
tion. 

Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, of 
good character, and a descendant of one who, as a military, 



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naval or marine officer, soldier, sailor or marine, in actual 
service, under the authority of any of the thirteen Colonies 
or States or of the Continental Congress, and remaining 
always loyal to such authority, or a descendant of one who 
signed the Declaration of Independence, or of one who, as a 
member of the Continental Congress or of the Congress of 
any of the Colonies or States, or as an official appointed by 
or under the authority of any such legislative bodies, actu- 
ally assisted in the establishment of American Independence 
by services rendered ,'during the war of the Revolution, 
becoming thereby liable to conviction of treason against the 
government of Great Britain, but remaining always loyal to 
the authority of the Colonies or States, shall be eligible to 
membership in the Society. 

The Secretary of each State Society shall transmit to the 
General Secretary a list of the members thereof, together 
with the names and official designations of those from whom 
;such members 1 derive claim to membership, and thereafter 
upon the admission of members in each State Society, the 
Secretary thereof shall transmit to the General Secretary 
information respecting such members similar to that herein 
required. 

The Society shall have an insignia, which shall be a 
badge suspended from a ribbon by a ring of gold ; the badge 
to be elliptical in form, with escaloped edges, one and one- 
quarter inches in length, and one and one-eighth inches in 
width ; the whole surmounted by a gold eagle, with wings 
displayed, inverted ; on the obverse side a medallion of gold 
in the centre, elliptical iu form, bearing on its face the figure 
of a soldier in Continental uniform, with musket slung ; 
beneath, the figures 1775 ; the medallion surrounded by 
thirteen raised gold stars of five points each upon a border 
.of dark blue enamel. On the reverse side in the centre a 



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medallion corresponding in form to that on the obverse, and 
also in gold, bearing on its face the Houdon portrait of 
Washington in bas-relief, encircled by the legend, "Sons 
of the Revolution ;" beneath, the figures 1883 ; and upon the 
reverse of the eagle the number of the badge to be en- 
graved ; the medallion to be surrounded by a plain gold 
border, conforming in dimensions to the obverse ; the ribbon 
shall be dark blue, ribbed and watered, edged with buff, one 
and one-half inches wide, and one and one-half inches in 
displayed length. 

The insignia of the Society shall be worn by the members 
on all occasions when they assemble as such for any stated 
purpose or celebration, and may be worn on any occasion of 
ceremony ; it shall be carried conspicuously on the left 
breast, but members who are or have been officers of the 
Society may wear the insignia suspended from the ribbon 
around the neck. 

The custodian of the insignia shall be the General Secre- 
tary, who shall issue them to members of the Society under 
such proper rules as may be formulated by the General 
Society, and he shall keep a register of such issues wherein 
each insignia issued may be identified by the number 
thereof. 

The seal of the Society shall be one and seven-eighths 
inches in diameter, and shall consist of the figure of a Min- 
ute-man in Continental uniform, standing on a ladder lead- 
ing to a belfry ; in his left hand he holds a musket and an 
olive branch, whilst his right grasps a bell-rope ; above, the 
cracked Liberty Bell ; issuing therefrom a ribbon bearing 
the motto of the Society, Exegi monumentum cereperennius ; 
across the top of the ladder on a ribbon, the figures 1776 ; 
and on the left of the Minute-man, and also on a ribbon, the 
figures 1883, the year of the formation of the Society ; the 



whole encircled by a band three-eighths of one inch wide ; 
thereon at the top thirteen stars of five points each ; at the 
bottom the name of the General Society, or of the State 
Society to which the seal belongs. 




Society 

OF THE 

Sons of the Revolution 

In the State of New York. 



Instituted - - - February 22, 1876. 

Reorganized - - December 3, 1883. 

Incorporated - - - May 3, 1884. 



Constitution. 

preamble. 

Whereas, it has become evident from the decline of 
proper celebration of such National holidays as the Fourth 
of July, Washington's Birthday, and the like, that popular 
interest in the events and men of the War of the Revolu- 
tion is less than in the earlier days of the Republic ; 

And Whereas, this lack of interest is to be attributed 
not so much to lapse of time as to the neglect on the 
part of descendants of Revolutionary heroes to perform 
their duty of keeping before the public mind the memory 
of the services of their ancestors, and of the times in 
which they lived, and of the principles for which they 
contended ; 

Therefore, the Society of the "Sons of the Revo- 
lution" has been instituted, to perpetuate the memory 



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of the men who, in military, naval or civil service, by their 
acts or counsel, achieved American Independence ; to pro- 
mote and assist in the proper celebration of the anniver- 
saries of Washington's Birthday, the Battles of Lexington 
and Bunker Hill, the Fourth of July, the Capitulations of 
Saratoga and Yorktown, the formal Evacuation of New 
York by the British Army, on the 3d of December, 1783, 
as a relinquishment of territorial sovereignty, and other 
prominent events relating to or connected with the War 
of the Revolution ; to collect and secure for preservation 
the manuscript rolls, records and other documents and 
memorials relating to that War ; to inspire among the 
members and their descendants the patriotic spirit of their 
forefathers ; to inculcate in the community in general sen- 
timents of Nationality and respect for the principles for 
which the patriots of the Revolution contended ; to assist 
in the commemorative celebration of other great historical 
events of National importance, and to promote social inter- 
course and the feeling of fellowship among its members. 

ARTICLE I. 
Ittame of Society. 
The Society shall be known by the name, style and title 
of " Sons of the Revolution." 

ARTICLE II. 

dfcembcrsbip. 
Any male person, above the age of twenty-one years, 
shall be eligible to membership in the "Sons of the Revo- 
lution " who is descended from an ancestor, as the propos- 
itus, who, either as a military, naval or marine officer, 
soldier, sailor, or marine, or official in the service of any 



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one of the thirteen original Colonies or States, or of the 
National Government representing or composed of those 
Colonies or States, assisted in establishing American Inde- 
pendence during the War of the Revolution, between the 
19th day of April, 1775, when hostilities commenced, and 
the 19th day of April, 1783, when they were ordered to cease. 

Provided : That when the claim of eligibility is based on 
the service of an ancestor in the "minute men" or 
"militia," it must be satisfactorily shown that such ances- 
tor was actually called into the service of the State or 
United States, and performed garrison or field duty ; and 

Provided further : That when the claim of eligibility is 
based on the service of an ancestor as a "sailor" or 
"marine," it must in like manner be shown that such ser- 
vice was other than shore duty and regularly performed in 
the Continental Navy, or the Navy of one of the original 
thirteen States, or on an armed vessel, other than a mer- 
chant ship, which sailed under letters of marque and 
reprisal, and that such ancestor of the applicant was duly 
enrolled in the ship's company, either as an officer, seaman, 
or otherwise than as a passenger ; and 

Provided further : That when the claim of eligibility is 
based on the service of an ancestor as an " official," such 
service must have been performed in the civil service of the 
United States, or of one of the thirteen original States, and 
must have been sufficiently important in character to have 
rendered the official specially liable to arrest and imprison- 
ment, the same as a combatant, if captured by the enemy, 
as well as liable to conviction of treason against the Gov- 
ernment of Great Britain. 

Service in the ordinary duties of a civil office, the per- 
formance of which did not particularly and effectively aid 
the American Cause shall not constitute eligibility. 



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Provided further : That when there shall be no surviv- 
ing issue in direct lineal succession from an officer, soldier, 
sailor or marine who died or was killed while in actual ser- 
vice as aforesaid, or from an officer who received, by for- 
mal resolve, the approbation of the Continental Congress 
for revolutionary services, or from a Signer of the Declara- 
tion of Independence, the claim of eligibility shall descend 
and be limited to one representative at a time in the near- 
est collateral line of descent from such propositus, who 
may be otherwise qualified as herein required, and to be 
designated by the Society ; and no other descendants in 
collateral lines shall be admitted in right of any services 
whatever. 

In the construction of this article, the Volunteer Aides de 
Camp of General Officers in Continental Service, who were 
duly announced as such and who actually served in the 
field during a campaign, shall be comprehended as having 
performed qualifying service. 

The Civil officials and military forces of the State of Ver- 
mont, during the War of the Revolution, shall also be com- 
prehended in the same manner as if they had belonged to 
one of the thirteen original States. 

No service of an ancestor shall be deemed as qualifying 
service for membership in the "Sons of the Revolution" 
where such ancestor, after assisting in the cause of Ameri- 
can Independence, shall have subsequently either adhered 
to the enemy, or failed to maintain an honorable record 
throughout the War of the Revolution. 

No person shall be admitted unless he be eligible under 
one of the provisions of this Article nor unless he be of good 
moral character and be judged worthy of becoming a 
member. 



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ARTICLE III. 

Officers. 
The officers of the Society of the "Sons of the Revo- 
lution" shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secre- 
tary, a Treasurer, a Registrar, and a Chaplain, who shall be 
chosen by ballot at every annual meeting from among the 
members thereof. 

ARTICLE IV. 

3Boaro of dftanagers. 
The Board of Managers of the Society shall be fifteen, 
namely : the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary, 
the Treasurer, the Registrar, and the Chaplain, ex-officio, 
and nine others who shall be chosen by ballot at every 
annual meeting from among the members of the Society. 

ARTICLE V. 

Bomtseton of Members. 

Every application for membership shall be made in writ- 
ing, subscribed by the applicant, and approved by two mem- 
bers over their signatures. Applications shall contain, or be 
accompanied by, proof of eligibility, and such applications 
and proofs shall be submitted to the Board of Managers, 
who shall have full power to determine the qualifications of 
the applicant. 

Payment of the initiation fee and subscription to the 
declaration required by the Constitution of this Society 
shall be a pre-requisite of membership. 

ARTICLE VI. 

Declaration. 

Every member shall declare upon honor that he will 
endeavor to promote the purposes of this Institution and 



observe the " Constitution " and " By-Laws " of this Society,, 
and, if he be a citizen of the United States, shall declare that 
he will support the Constitution of the United States. Such 
declaration shall be in writing, and subscribed by the mem- 
ber making it. 

ARTICLE VII. 

Institution Consioereo. 
At every meeting the purposes of the Institution will 
be fully considered and the best measures to promote them 
adopted. No question, however, involving the party politics 
of the Day within the United States shall ever be discussed 
or considered in any meeting of the "Sons of the Revo- 
lution." 

ARTICLE VIII. 

Commemorations. 
It shall be a standing Regulation that the members shall, 
when practicable, hold a commemorative celebration and 
dine together at least once every year. 

ARTICLE IX. 

Seal. 

The seal of the Society of the " Sons of the Revolu- 
tion " shall be one and seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, 
and shall consist of the figure of a " Minute-man " in Con- 
tinental uniform, standing on a ladder leading to a belfry, 
and holding in his left hand a musket and an olive branch, 
and grasping in his right hand a bell-rope. Above, the 
cracked "Liberty bell"; issuing therefrom a ribbon, bear- 
ing the motto of the "Sons of the Revolution": " Exegi 
Monumentum ^Ere Perennius." Across the top of the 
ladder, on a ribbon, the figures " 1776," and at the left of 



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the Minute-man, and also on a ribbon, the figures " 1883," 
the year of the Centennial commemoration of the permanent 
evacuation by the British army of American territory ; the 
whole encircled by a band three-eighths of an inch wide ; 
thereon at the top thirteen stars of five points each, and 
at the bottom the legend, "Sons op the Revolution;" 
the following being a fac-simiie thereof : 




The Secretary shall be the custodian of the seal, which 
shall be identical in every particular with this description. 

ARTICLE X. 

Insignia. 

The insignia of the "Sons of the Revolution" shall 
consist of a badge pendant from the ribbon by a ring of 
gold. 

The badge shall be elliptical in form, with escaloped 
edges, one and one-quarter inches in length, and one and 



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•one-eighth inches in width; the whole surmounted by a 
gold eagle, with wings displayed, inverted. On the obverse 
side a medallion of gold in the centre, elliptical in form, 
bearing on its face the figure of a soldier in Continental uni- 
form, with musket slung. Beneath, the figures " 1775 ;" the 
medallion surrounded by thirteen raised gold stars of five 
points each upon a border of dark blue enamel. 

On the reverse side, in the centre, a medallion, corre- 
sponding in form to that on the obverse, and also in gold, 
bearing on its face Houdon's portrait of Washington in bas- 
relief, encircled by the legend, " Sons of the Revolution." 
Beneath the figures "1883," and upon the reverse of the 
eagle, the number of the particular badge engraved ; the 
medallion surrounded by a plain gold border conforming in 
dimensions to the obverse, upon which members may have 
their names engraved in script. 

The ribbon shall be dark blue, ribbed and watered, edged 
with buff, one and one-half inches wide and one and one- 
half inches in displayed length. 

The insignia shall be worn by the members conspicuously 
and only on the left breast on all occasions when they shall 
assemble as such for any stated purpose or celebration. The 
badge shall never be worn as an article of jewelry. 

The Treasurer of the Society shall procure and issue the 
insignia to the members and shall keep a record of all issued 
by him. 

Such insignia shall be returned to the Treasurer of the 
Society by any member who may formally withdraw or 
resign or be expelled, but otherwise it shall be deemed an 
heirloom. 

No member shall receive more than one badge, unless to 
replace one, the loss or destruction of which shall first be 
satisfactorily established. 



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The following being a fac-simile of such insignia 




On occasions other than the meetings for any stated 
purpose or celebration, members may wear a rosette of the 
prescribed ribbon and pattern in the upper button-hole of 
the left lapel of the coat. 

The Treasurer shall procure and issue the rosettes to 
members. 

The following being a fac-simile of the same, which 
shall not exceed fifteen millimetres in diameter : 




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ARTICLE XI. 

alterations ano Bmenomeiita. 
No alteration nor amendment of the Constitution of this 
Society shall be made unless notice thereof shall be duly 
given in writing, signed by the member proposing the same, 
at a meeting of the Society, nor unless the same shall be 
adopted at a subsequent meeting, held at least thirty days 
after such notice, by a vote of three-fourths of the members 
present. 



By-Laws. 



SECTION I. 

Initiation tfee, Dues ano Contributions. 

The initiation fee shall be ten dollars ; the annual dues, 
five dollars, which shall be payable on or before the first 
day of January in every year. The payment at one time 
of seventy -five dollars shall thenceforth exempt the mem- 
ber so paying from the payment of annual dues. 

Any member who may contribute two hundred and fifty 
dollars to the "Permanent Fund" of the Society shall be 
exempt from the payment of annual dues, and this exemp- 
tion shall extend in perpetuity to his lineal successors in 
membership from the same propositus, one at a time, who 
may be selected for such exemption by the Society. 

SECTION II. 
Ipermanent tfuno. 
There shall be a "Permanent Fund," to be derived from 
contributions, and to remain forever to the use of the So- 
ciety, the income only of which shall be expended. 

SECTION III. 

lpresioent. 

The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, or in 
his absence a chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all 
meetings of the Society and of the Board of Managers, and 



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shall exercise the usual functions of a presiding officer, 
under general parliamentary rules, subject to an appeal to 
the Society, in proper cases under those rules. The Presi- 
dent shall be, ex officio, a member of all committees other 
than the Committee on Nominations. He shall have power 
to convene the Board of Managers and appoint the place of 
such meeting when called by him. 

He shall also perform such other representative duties on 
behalf of the Society, either personally or by correspondence, 
as it or the Board of Managers may find desirable or neces- 
sary, or as customarily appertain to his office, and he shall 
enforce a strict observance of the Constitution and By-Laws 
of the Society. 

In case of his decease, resignation, neglect to serve, or 
inability from any cause to act as President, the duties of 
the office shall devolve on the Vice-President, until the 
vacancy caused by such decease, resignation, or neglect to 
serve, shall be filled, or until the inability shall cease. 



SECTION IV. 

Secretary. 

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence 
of the Society and keep a record thereof. He shall notify all 
qualified and accepted candidates of their admission, and 
perform such other duties as the Society, or Board of Man- 
agers, or his office, may require of him. He shall have 
charge of the seal, certificates of incorporation, by-laws, 
historical and other documents and records of the Society 
other than those required to be deposited with the Registrar, 
and shall affix the seal to all properly authenticated certifi- 
cates of membership, and transmit the same without delay to 



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the member for whom it shall be issued or to his proper repre- 
sentative. He shall also notify the Registrar of all admis- 
sions to membership, and transmit to him the applications 
and proofs of eligibility of all persons so admitted. He, 
together with the presiding officer, shall, when necessary, 
certify all acts of the Society, and, in proper cases, authen- 
ticate them under seal. He shall have charge of all printing 
and publications directed by the Society or by the Board of 
Managers. He shall give due notice of the time and place 
of all meetings of the Society, and of the Board of Managers, 
and shall attend the same. He shall keep fair and accurate 
records of all the proceedings and orders of the Society, and 
of the Board of Managers, and shall give notice to the sev- 
eral officers of all votes, orders, resolves, and proceedings of 
the Society or of the Board of Managers, affecting them or 
appertaining to their respective duties ; and, at the annual 
meeting, and oftener, if required, shall report to the Society 
the names of those candidates who have been admitted to 
membership, and also the names of those members whose 
resignations or voluntary withdrawals have been consented 
to and accepted, and also the names of those members who 
have been expelled, or dropped for non-payment of dues, or 
for failure to substantiate claim of descent. In his absence 
from any meeting, a Secretary pro tempore may be desig- 
nated therefor, unless the Assistant Secretary shall be present 
to act in such capacity. 

SECTION V. 

{Treasurer. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and 
securities of the Society ; and as often as those funds shall 
amount to one hundred dollars they shall be deposited in 



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some bank in the City of New York, which shall be desig- 
nated by the Board of Managers, to the credit of the 
Society of the " Sons of the Revolution," and such funds 
shall be drawn thence on the check of the Treasurer for the 
purposes of the Society only. Out of these funds he shall pay 
such sums only as may be ordered by the Society, or by the 
Board of Managers, and shall perform such other duties as 
the Society, or Board of Managers, or his office, may require 
of him. He shall keep a true account of his receipts and 
payments, and, at each annual meeting, render the same to 
the Society, with a full statement of the financial condition 
of the Society, when a committee shall be appointed to 
audit his accounts. 

For the faithful performance of his duty, he shall give 
such security as the Society, or Board of Managers in lieu 
of its action thereon, may from time to time require. 



SECTION VI. 
IRegtstrav. 

The Registrar shall receive from the Secretary, file and 
keep of record all the proofs upon which memberships have 
been granted, declarations of members on admission of 
adherence to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society, 
together with a list of all diplomas countersigned by him, 
and all documents, rolls, or other evidences of service in 
the War of the Revolution of which the Society may 
become possessed ; and he, under the direction of the Board 
of Managers, shall make or cause to be made for file in his 
office, copies of such original or certified documents as the 
owners thereof may not be willing to leave permanently in 
the keeping of the Society. 



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SECTION VII. 

Cbaplafn. 

The Chaplain shall be a regularly ordained minister of a 
Christian denomination, and it shall be his duty to open 
and close all meetings with customary chaplaincy services, 
and perform such other duties as ordinarily appertain to 
such office. 

SECTION VIII. 

HMstortan. 

The Board of Managers shall have power to appoint an 
Historian, who shall keep a detailed record, to be depos- 
ited with the Secretary, of all the historical and commem- 
orative celebrations of the Society ; and he shall edit and 
prepare for publication such historical addresses, essays, 
papers and other documents of an historical character, 
other than a Register of Members, as the Secretary may be 
required to publish ; and at every annual meeting, if there 
shall be a necrological list for the year then closing, he 
shall submit the same, with carefully prepared biographies 
of the deceased members. 

SECTION IX. 

assistant Secretary. 

The Board of Managers shall have power to appoint 
an Assistant Secretary, who shall assist the Secretary in the 
performance of such duties of that office as the latter may, 
from time to time, devolve upon him, and may, in such 
cases, give required notices, and certify, and authenticate, 
when necessary, any acts, documents or records of the 
Society. 



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In case of the absence of the Secretary from any meet- 
ing- of the Society or of the Board of Managers, or of his 
decease, resignation, neglect to serve, or inability from any 
cause to act in that capacity, the duties of the office shall 
devolve on the Assistant Secretary until the Secretary shall 
return, or until the vacancy caused by such decease, resig- 
nation, or neglect to serve, shall be filled, or until the ina- 
bility shall cease. 

SECTION X. 

JBoarO Ot /ifcanagera. 

The Board of Managers shall judge of the qualifications 
of every candidate who shall make proper application for 
admission to the Society, and shall have power to admit 
him to membership therein, if found eligible under the Con- 
stitution of this Society. Three negative votes shall be a 
rejection of the applicant. 

They may, through the Secretary, call special meetings 
of the Society at such times as they may see fit ; and they 
may arrange for commemorative celebrations by the Society. 

They shall recommend plans to the Society for promot- 
ing its purposes, and, when practicable, may digest and 
prepare business for its meetings, and shall supervise all 
publications issued in its name, and decide whether copies 
of records or other documents or papers may be furnished 
on request of any party, in cases not pertaining directly to 
the business of the Society, and the proper conduct of its 
affairs. 

They shall generally superintend the interests, and shall 
have the control and management of the affairs and funds 
of the Society. They shall also perform such duties as may 
be prescribed by the Constitution and By-Laws, or required 
by any Standing Rule or Resolve of the Society ; provided, 



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however, that they shall at no time be required to take any 
action nor contract any debt for which they shall be jointly 
or severally liable. They shall be competent to consent to 
and to accept the resignation or voluntary withdrawal from 
membership of any enrolled member of the Society. 

They may require the attendance of any member of the 
Society, or any official or Committee thereof, at any meet- 
ing, for consultation and advice . 

The Board of Managers shall meet as often as they may 
desire, or at the call of the President, or upon the written 
request of any three members of the same, addressed to the 
Secretary. 

A majority of the Board of Managers shall be a quorum 
for the transaction of business. 

At every annual meeting they shall submit to the Society 

a general report of their proceedings during the year then 

closing, and at such other time as may be required by the 

Society. 

SECTION XI. 

JEjpulskm ano Suspension. 
The Board of Managers shall have power to expel any 
enrolled member of this Society who, by a conduct incon- 
sistent with a gentleman and a man of honor, or by an 
opposition to the interests of the Community in general or 
of this Society in particular, may render himself unworthy 
to continue a member, or who shall persistently transgress, 
or, without good excuse, willfully neglect or fail in the per- 
formance of any obligation enjoined by the Constitution or 
By-Laws or any standing Rule of this Society. Provided, 
that such member shall have received at least ten days' 
notice of the complaint preferred against him, and of the 
time and place for hearing the same, and have been thereby 
afforded an opportunity to be heard in person. 



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Whenever the cause of expulsion shall not have involved 
turpitude nor moral unworthiness, any member thus ex- 
pelled may, upon the unanimous recommendation of the 
Board of Managers, but not otherwise, be restored to mem- 
bership by the Society at any meeting. 

The Board of Managers shall also have power to drop 
from the Roll the name of any enrolled member of the 
Society who shall be at least two years in arrears in the 
payment of dues, and who, on notice to pay the same, shall 
fail and neglect to do so within ten days thereafter, and 
upon being thus dropped, his membership shall cease and 
determine ; but he may be restored to membership at any 
time by the Board of Managers, on his application therefor, 
and upon his payment of all such arrears and of the annual 
dues from the date when he was dropped to the date of his 
restoration. The Board of Managers may also suspend any 
officer from the performance of his duties, for cause ; which 
proceeding must be reported to the Society and acted upon 
by it within thirty days, either by rescision of the suspen- 
sion or removal of the suspended officer from office, or other- 
wise the suspension shall cease. 

SECTION XII. 

IDacancies and £erms of Office. 
Whenever an officer of this Society shall die, resign, or 
neglect to serve, or be suspended, or be unable to properly 
perform the duties of his office, by reason of absence, sick- 
ness or other cause, and whenever an office shall be vacant, 
which the Society shall not have filled by an election, the 
Board of Managers shall have power to appoint a member 
to such office pro tempore, who shall act in such capacity 
until the Society shall elect a member to the vacant office, 
or until the inability due to " suspension, absence, sickness or 



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other cause " shall cease. Provided, however, that the office 
of President or Secretary shall not thus be filled by the 
Board of Managers, when there shall be a Vice-President or 
Assistant Secretary to enter upon the duties of those offices 
respectively. 

In like manner, the Board of Managers may supply 
vacancies among its members, under the same conditions 
and limitations ; and in case any member thereof, other than 
an officer, shall be absent from three consecutive meetings 
of the same, his place therein may be declared vacant by 
the Board of Managers and filled by an appointment which 
shall continue in full effect until the Society shall elect a 
successor. 

Subject to these provisions, all officers of the Society, 
and the members of the Board of Managers, shall, from the 
time of their election or appointment, continue in their re- 
spective offices until the next annual meeting, and until 
their respective successors shall be duly chosen. 

SECTION XIII. 

IRestgnation. 
No resignation or voluntary withdrawal from member- 
ship of any member enrolled in this Society shall become 
effective as a release from the obligations thereof, unless 
consented to and accepted by the Board of Managers. 

SECTION XIV. 

Disqualification. 

No person who may be enrolled as a member in this 

Society shall be permitted to continue in membership where 

the proofs of claim of qualification by descent shall be found 

to be defective and insufficient to substantiate such claim, 



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or not properly authenticated. The Society, or the Board of 
Managers, may, at any time after thirty days' notice to such 
person to properly substantiate or authenticate his claim, 
require the Secretary to erase his name from the list of 
members, and such person shall thereupon cease to be a 
member : Provided, he shall have failed or neglected to 
comply satisfactorily with such notice. 

Where the Board of Managers shall direct the erasure of 
a person's name for a cause comprehended under this sec- 
tion, such person shall have a right of appeal to the next 
annual meeting of the Society ; but he shall not be restored 
to membership unless by a vote of three-fourths of the 
members present on that occasion, or at a subsequent meet- 
ing to which the consideration of the appeal may have 
been specifically postponed. 

SECTION XV. 

annual and Special Meetings. 

The Society shall hold an annual meeting in the city of 
New York on the third day of December in every year, at 
which a general election of officers and managers, by ballot, 
shall take place, except when such date shall fall on Sunday, 
in which case the meeting shall be held on the following day. 

In such election the polls shall be open one and one-half 
hours, and a majority of the ballots given for any office or 
for a manager shall constitute a choice therefor ; but. if on 
the first ballot no member shall receive such a majority, 
then a further balloting, in such case, shall forthwith take 
place, in which a plurality of votes given shall determine 
the choice therefor. During any election the regular Order 
of Business may be proceeded with. 

Special meetings shall be held by direction of the Board 
of Managers, or upon the written request of thirty members 



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of the Society, at such time and place as said Board may 
direct. At such special meeting no business shall he trans- 
acted except such as shall be specified in the notice therefor. 

One week's notice of time and place of annual or special 
meetings shall be given by publication in two daily news- 
papers in the city of New York, and by mailing through the 
post-office in said city a written or printed notice to every 
member of the Society. 

At all meetings of the Society thirty members shall con- 
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 

The meetings of the Society for business shall be gen- 
erally conducted according to Parliamentary Law, and the 
following Order of Business shall, as far as the same may 
be applicable, be followed : 

©roer of :)Bustnees : 

1. Meeting called to order by Presiding Officer. 

2. Prayer by the Chaplain. 

3. Reading of minutes of prior meetings not previously 
acted upon. 

4. Election of officers and managers, when necessary. 

5. Communications from or Report of Board of Managers. 

6. Reports of Officers. 

7. Reports of Special Committees. 

8. Unfinished business. 

9. Written communications requiring action of the 
Society. 

10. Specially noticed business. 

11. Notices of motion for subsequent meeting. 

12. Miscellaneous business. 

13. Reading of the Preamble to this Constitution. 

14. Closing Prayer by the Chaplain. 



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SECTION XVI. 

Service of IRottces. 

It shall be the duty of every member to inform the Sec- 
retary, by written communication, of his place of residence 
and of any change thereof, and of his post-office address. 

Service of any notice under this Constitution or By- 
Laws upon any member of the Society, addressed to 
him at his last recorded place of residence or post-office 
address, and forwarded by mail, shall be deemed sufficient 
service of such notice. 

SECTION XVIT. 

'Recommendation of Canoioates. 
No member shall approve an application for membership 
in this Society unless he shall know the candidate to be 
worthy, and shall have satisfied himself by due examina- 
tion of proofs that such candidate is eligible, and will, if 
admitted, be a desirable member. 

SECTION XVIII. 

•Nominating Committee. 

The Society may, at the annual meeting, choose a Nomi- 
nating Committee, of nine members, to nominate officers 
and members of the Board of Managers, for election at the 
succeeding annual meeting. 

In case the Society shall not choose such a Committee, 
the President shall, prior to every annual meeting, appoint 
such a Nominating Committee of nine members from among 
the members longest enrolled as such, who may consent to 
serve on such Committee, exclusive of officers or members of 
the Board of Managers. 



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The Nominating Committee shall select and nominate a 
ticket of the names proposed to fill the respective offices, to 
be elected by ballot, which ticket shall be printed and dis- 
tributed as the "Regular Ticket" at the ensuing annual 
election. 

In order to secure as far as may be in the Board of Man- 
agers stability in procedure and familiarity with precedents 
in the business affairs of the Society, every Nominating 
Committee shall, in making nominations for the suffrages 
of the Society of members of said Board other than those 
who are ex-officio members, so arrange their recommenda- 
tions as to provide for the retirement annually of not less 
than three nor more than four of those who shall have 
served longest continuously on said Board, and for the 
continuance of a proportionate number. 

SECTION XIX. 
Decease of flfcembera. 

Upon the decease of any member residing within the 
State of New York, notice thereof, and of the time and place 
of the funeral, shall be given by the Secretary by publica- 
tion, and it shall thereupon become the duty of the mem- 
bers, when practicable, to attend the obsequies. 

Any member, upon being informed of the decease of a 
member, shall make it his business to see that the Secretary 
is promptly notified of the fact, which fact shall also, in due 
time, be communicated to the Society. 

SECTION XX. 

Certificate of /f&embersbtp. 

Every member shall be entitled to receive a certificate of 

membership, which shall be authenticated by the President 

and Secretary,. and countersigned by the Registrar of the 



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Society, and to which the seal of the "Sons of the Revo- 
lution" shall be affixed. The certificate shall be in form 
following : 

"SONS OF THE REVOLUTION." . 

Be it known that has been duly 

admitted a member of this Institution in right of the services 

of in the cause of American 

Independence during the War of the Revolution. 

Dated at the City of New York this .... day of , 

in the year of our Lord thousand hundred and 

, and of the Independence of the United States of 

America the 



President of the Society. 

Secretary of the Society. 
Registrar. 



SECTION XXI. 

jflfcarsbal. 

The President of the Society may, from time to time, in 
his discretion, designate a member to act, under his direc- 
tion, as Marshal for the Society in its commemorative cele- 
brations, parades and other meetings, and to perform such 
duties as usually appertain to such a position. 



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SECTION XXII. 

alterations or amendments. 

No alteration nor amendment of the By-Laws of this 
Society shall be made unless notice thereof shall be duly 
given in writing, signed by the member proposing the same, 
at a meeting of the Society, nor unless the same shall be 
adopted at a subsequent meeting, held at least thirty days 
after such notice, by a vote of two-thirds of the members 
present. 




An Address 

ON 

"Ticonderoga: or the Defeat of the Old 
World in the New," 

DELIVERED AT THE BERKELEY LYCEUM, MONDAY, MAY u, 1891, 
BEFORE THE SOCIETY, 

By Professor Henry P. Johnston. 



Me. President and Members of the 

%> Society op the Sons of the Revolution." 

Ladies and Gentlemen : 

In his noble addi*ess at the dedication of Bunker Hill monument 
nearly seventy years since, Daniel Webster, rising into national 
fame, eulogized the American Revolution as the grandest achieve- 
ment of modern times — the saving event of the age, shining in relief 
as a wonder to the nations and a blessing to mankind. 

Fulsome praise this, we would say, to bestow upon a movement 
whose effects had yet to mature, and whose resulting political system 
was hardly accepted as existing beyond its experimental stage. But 
Webster's estimate, based upon fact and faith and consciousness of 
American destiny, has been more than con firmed. 

A wonder and a blessing ! Indulging for a moment in the con- 
ceit this occasion may justify — where in all history have we had 
the spectacle of a provincial community bravely breaking its con- 
nection with a powerful government and venerated associations, and 
that, too, upon a nice issue of constitutional principle and cabinet 
policy ; then bounding forward on a great career, vigorous, confi- 
dent, resourceful, developing by normal processes, expanding rapidly 



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and prodigiously, avoiding disruption by a mighty struggle, and 
taking its place within the rounded century as one of the leading na- 
tions of the globe ? And where so much of opportunity for all men ; 
where such freedom of person and opinion ; where so little felt the 
finger of authority, and where such regard for authority ; where so 
much self-respect in every social grade, rooted in the sense of com- 
mon equality in citizenship; where more confidence in the suf- 
ficiency of governmental forms ; where any greater disposition shown 
to expose dangers that may threaten them, and where, in general, 
any healthier state of society ? For in such things we must speak 
by comparison. A blessing, also, in the broader sense that we have 
inspired something like a world-faith in self-government. Not to 
speak of the acknowledged influence our example has had upon Con- 
tinental Europe, the branch of the race to which we belong — what 
we call the Anglo-Saxon — has everywhere felt the leaven and is en- 
gaged in working out a common problem. In line with our own 
land to-day stands our Mother Country, England, a monarchy in 
form, in reality a free representative government. In line stands 
her great colony, Canada, a confederation of practically self-gov- 
erning States; and in line stands that more distant but growing 
group, which is now moving to present itself to the world as 
the new Commonwealth of Australia. This galaxy of communi- 
ties, claiming a place in the fore-front of civilization, and rep- 
resenting a population of one hundred and twenty millions, stands 
avowedly on the platform of principles of which the American 
Revolution and the American Constitution are the most prominent 
exponents. The Anglo-Saxon race, the world over, is to-day in its 
popular trend and sympathies democratic— in its political forms and 
relations, republican. 

To appreciate the full significence of this Revolution we must as- 
sociate together a series of distinct struggles — we must combine a 
series of distinct results; and appropriately so on the present anni- 
versary, for of all the spots endeared to us by the valor and sacri- 
fices of the men of " Seventy-six," Ticonderoga alone stands forth as 
the witness and symbol of the conflicts which proved decisive. 

We remember the Revolution as having assured to us independ- 
ence and a larger measure of self-government. This was the im- 
mediate outcome of that struggle, which in turn was a historical 
development of the English Revolution of 168S, and earlier efforts on 



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the part of Englishmen to limit the prerogative of the Crown- 
All the way through our ancestral life we meet with the demand for 
rights and privileges. The American movement stands as the latest 
step forward in the same line, with the boon of independence super- 
added — a boon secured through the necessities of the situation. But 
the Revolution did more than close the traditional dispute with 
royalty at home. As being fought out on distant soil it bad other 
relations. It closed and fittingly crowned a succession of struggles 
waged both in Europe and America affecting the future of the New 
World. It closed the struggle for possession in America — a matter 
of the greatest moment to this nation ; for we are apt to forget that 
our influence and proud position in the eye of the world is due not 
to our independence and our republican system alone. Our National 
grandeur lies in our expanse. Not the republic of the United States, 
but the dominant, the all but illimitable republic is the attraction we 
present; and this, it will be recalled, has come about not simply 
through our contest with England in the last century. 

Turn back to the earlier situation. It is a striking fact in the- 
history of this Continent — bordering, indeed, upon the romantic — 
that after its discovery and settlement by four leading powers of 
Europe — Spain, France, Holland and England — and after successive 
struggles on their part for supremacy here, it has passed out of the 
control of all of them. Not since the old Roman world succumbed 
to the Teutonic invader has there been anything more impressive in 
the course of events than this release of America from the grasp of 
Europe. 

•It had been the dream of the Spaniard that the regions brought 
to light through the faith of Columbus, and explored with so much 
zeal and hazard by his successors, would expand his dominions into 
an empire unmatched in wealth and grandeur, and whose power 
would overawe every rival. The ground of his hope seemed as 
good as his title to the soil. His sailors had, in fact, traced out a 
new world. They first skirted the coasts of South America, mapping 
it in its present shape as a distinct continent, hitherto unknown. 
They first crept along the line of the Isthmus and the deep indent- 
ure of the Gulf of Mexico, dropping into and giving names to the 
rivers and bays, and they first settled on our eastern and western 
coasts. The Spaniard planted himself in the West Indies, in South 
America, in Mexico, in California, and in Florida, asserted his ex- 



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elusive sovereignty over these new regions and gloried in his expan- 
sion. But his dreams have been disturbed. Fate has handled him 
without gloves. To-day he owns, save some islauds, not a foot of 
soil in the vast America he discovered! The Frenchman, also, came 
this way. Under the buoyant Cartier he pushed northwai'd, looking 
for a turn in the endless coast, and thus discovered the St. Lawrence. 
Under Champlain and the Jesuit Fathers he penetrated to the Lakes 
trading with the natives, groping and wandering as he traded, until 
lie reached the Mississippi. With a keen relish for exploration he 
descended the river, paddled up its tributaries, and, for the first time, 
laid out its course, and opened up that imperial domain we call our 
interior — the valley of the Mississippi. It once belonged to the 
Frenchman, and for its retention he struggled desperately. But he 
lost all. To-day he owns no more here than the Spaniard ! The 
Dutch had their turn. They came to buy and trade. Claiming un- 
occupied territory, they settled down in this vicinity in the most 
natural and comfortable way, laid the foundations of the metropolis 
of the New World, and in their trade and industries forecast the 
possibilities of our Empire State. But one day in the midst of their 
growing prosperity the worst of all the Stuarts turned them out 
without notice, and, perhaps, without good warrant. The Holland 
which first cleared this region for us, the Holland which was our 
first and constant friend in the Revolution, does not now even own 
an island here! And last, came the Englishman. He did more than 
all others, for he brought with him a population, settling continuously 
along our coast for seven hundred miles. He planted villages and 
towns, organized society, established civil government ; in fact, 
created a new member for his empire — the American colonies. He 
crowded or pushed all rivals out. The Spaniard was kept down at the 
Gulf, the Frenchman yielded to his superior might, the Dutch were 
made of no account. All went. Destiny, as it was read in the last 
century, waved the English flag over this continent. But to-day 
another waves here. All that the Englishman retains on this side 
is Canada, and he holds that as a sort of confession that he could 
keep no more ! 

Here is a succession of events from which a nation-drama, as it 
were, might be composed, with no lack of material in the way of 
shifting- scene and effective climax: and we can give it a sounding 
title — the "Humiliation of Europe in America." 



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If Europe is not here to-day, Europe alone is responsible. Her 
powers attempted to monopolize Nature's gift of a continent to the 
world, as they had so often wrested and monopolized territory at 
home. They overreached themselves, and lost. Europe is not here 
"because of the soulless, h'on mould in which her course has been 
forced to run for centuries. Rivalries, jealousies, state-craft, ambi- 
tion, grasping policies, have been more often than not the springs 
of the "international incident" there, with retribution following. 
Proud Spain, for example, with the wealth of the New World in 
her lap. assumed to dictate, coerce and crush, until her enemies and 
her rivals, singly and in combination, succeeded in the course of 
two centuries to trim her plumage and relegate her to the position of 
a fourth-rate power. Her humiliation came, in part, in the shape of 
a weakened hold on America by the time of our Revolution, due to 
her enforced weakness at home. Prance and England succeeded to 
her supremacy. Then, between these two, came the giant conflicts 
of the last century, resulting in the expulsion of the French from 
America. England thus was left supreme. At the close of the 
Seven Years' War, or our French and Indian war in 1763, the British 
Empire stood at the height of its power. Influential in Continental 
diplomacy, mistress of the seas, the foundations of her Indian 
dominion laid, her American colonies undisturbed by the presence of 
either France or Holland, and Spain not to be feared, Britain ruled 
as never before. 

And what now remained to humble her? What could exclude 
her from America? It is the same story. Her own Europeanism — 
traditional Europeanism, as she had imbibed it— explains all. Those 
Colonies! To her superficial eye they were but part of herself — 
three million British subjects inconveniently separated from her by 
an ocean, nothing more. In her pride and blind egotism, England, 
and we mean here official England, failed to observe that one hun- 
dred and fifty years of colonial life had eradicated the Old World 
impress among those people ; that they had cut loose from the past ; 
that the influence of isolation, throwing them upon their own re- 
sources, had developed a strong, self-reliant race ; that — derived 
mainly, it is true, from the root and loins of old England— the new 
soil, the new clime, the new surroundings, the new self-culture, the 
new political education, had bred in them something like a variation 
of the stock. England had failed to observe that in 1775 her colon- 



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ists had grown into a fifth element here, practically native to 
America and unknown to Europe; and when she came to deal with 
it, contrast and collision were inevitable. England's exclusive com- 
mercial policy — not unlike what Spain's had been — her narrow sense 
of political justice, her ultra views of authority, her Old World self- 
assertion, brought about the rupture, and we have the American 
Revolution with its result. The old England, the European England^ 
was finally excluded herself from these shores. The succession of 
struggles for possession here was closed, leaving the new American 
dominant with a noble stretch of territory, from the Lakes to Florida, 
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. The certainty of our future ex- 
pansion was then and there fixed. Spain still lay west and south of 
us, but Spain was needy and effete, and time would add to our pos- 
sessions all that we might seek. 

The Revolution thus brought us into an inheritance of magnifi- 
cent domain, as well as into the full inheritance of rights, privileges 
and autonomy. The former has been necessary to impress ourselves 
and the world with the blessings of the latter. A contracted republic, 
confined to a strip upon this coast, such as we might have been, had 
European contests resulted differently, would doubtless be respected, 
but it could not develop, nor command, nor inspire. Let us rejoice 
that we have here no "pent-up Utica;" no Switzerland — happy re- 
public, shining in the heart of Europe, but cooped up in mountain 
cantons, with her neutrality guaranteed by monai*chies; no Holland 
of old, with glorious history, in the enjoyment of whose fruits we 
share, but outstripped and overawed by armed powers on every side ; 
no isolated city democracies, the pride of antiquity, but doomed to 
absorption and extinction. No! we, ourselves, and the sympathetic 
world glory in seeing here not a republic in pigmy form, but an out- 
stretched colossus, the "wonder" of Webster's anticipation— not a 
beacon light, but a new and radiant sun, whose blaze and warmth 
and glowing splendor penetrate to every corner and compel the at- 
tention and reflection of mankind. 



Ticonderoga ! Tins society, in whose organization we have a most 
happy conception realized, fittingly recalls such memories of the 
Revolution. The great "dead past" of a nation is not dead. As 
well tell us that the roots of the giant oak are dead, because they are 



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buried under the surface. That never can be dead which alone will 
account for what Carlyle so beautifully describes as "the leafy, 
blossoming present." Ticonderoga and all the other fields of that 
conflict remind us of things done, the atmosphere of whose influence 
is a living breath tO-day. To us assembled this evening Ticonderoga 
presents itself in all its historical significance as associated with 
events and results that have made possible our enormous territorial 
growth. It plays a striking part in the humiliation of Europe. It 
recalls the two greatest of the smuggles for possession here. It is 
the silent witness of the defeat of both France and England in 
America. 

The old fortress, now ruined and crumbling, at the southern end 
of Lake Champlain, has stood there, once rebuilt, for one hundred 
and thirty-six years. In 1755 the French established themselves at 
"that point, and put up what Parkman calls "their redoubtable 
stronghold" with which they expected to command, with other 
points, the entire lake region, and connect with points to the South and 
"West that would secure the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. For four 
years the contest was carried on for the control of the fortress, in 
which figured prominently such leaders as Montcalm and Dieskau, 
Amherst, Abercromby, Sir William Johnson, Howe, Williams and 
Lyman. In the summer of 1759 success fell to Amherst, and the 
French lost Ticonderoga and their positions to the northward. This 
important blow, with Wolfe's signal victory at Quebec in the same 
year, put the finish to French dominion in America. Our most 
dangerous contestant for the territory here was expelled, to be 
followed twenty years later by England herself. 

What we especially celebrate on this occasion is the second cap- 
ture of Ticouderoga — its loss to Britain at the outbreak of the Revo- 
lution, May 10, 1775. While not a leading event as a military 
achievement, we cannot fail to recall that there have been single in- 
cidents in history, not fully appreciated at the time, which magnify 
as they recede and their meaning becomes better understood. Have 
we not here an illustration ? Certain points then suggest themselves: 
What place and prominence shall we give the capture of the fortress 
in the valuation of Revolutionary events ? To whom belongs the 
credit of conceiving or planning it ? What men won the laurels of 
"the exploit ? 

The position of Ticonderoga, in relative importance, was not un- 



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like that of ancient Thermopylae. Both of them were gateways — 
gateways between northern and southern lands and dominion. Each 
controlled a situation, and was alike a menace and a defence. Down 
through memorable and tragic Thermopylae have poured successively 
Persian, Macedonian, Roman, Gaul and Turk, to .devastate Grecian 
fields and wipe out Grecian freedom. Around Ticonderoga in ac- 
tions much less striking in history, true, but scai'cely less significant 
in results, Frenchman, Englishman and American have played their 
part. The strategic value of that post, as demonstrated in the French 
and Indian War, had been enhanced by the time of the Revolution. 
Powerfully reinforced, and under vigorous military administration, 
Ticonderoga was capable of becoming a standing source of danger to 
New York and New England. The same reasons that impelled SO' 
many men from those sections of the country to march against it in 
1758 and '59 would impel still more to march in 1775 and '76. Re- 
calling the topography of that region, it will be observed that, in 
British hands, Ticonderoga would have been made the capital point 
in a chain of posts and fortifications, stretching from the St. 
Lawrence to the southern end of Lake George, and possibly carried 
to the Hudson only fifty miles above Albany. With St. John secur- 
ing the Sorel River to the northward, with a fleet of bateaux and 
gunboats controlling Lake Champlain; with the strong works at 
Crown Point restored ; with Ticonderoga and Mount Independence 
rendered unassailable; with Lake George free and protected by 
Fort William Henry ; with Canada as a base of supplies, and with the 
savage as an ally, the position of the enemy would have seriously 
embarrassed American plans and movements in the northern field. 
Operating from such a line and front, it would have been possible for 
the British to undertake or threaten, in each year of the war, what 
Burgoyne attempted in 1777. They could have moved directly upon 
Albany, or frequently repeated expeditions like those to Bennington 
and Oriskany, keeping the settlements in Northern New York, in 
Vermont, New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts and Connecticut 
in a chronic state of alarm. As a consequence, those States would 
have been compelled to provide for a general defence in that quar- 
ter, and so far have been weakened in ability to contribute men 
and supplies for the wider Continental demand. This complication 
could not but have affected unfavorably every campaign of the- 
Revolution. 



Fortunately, however, the early capture of Ticonderoga forestalled 
these unwelcome probabilities, and immediately turned the advantage 
to the American arm of the balance. Upon the seizure of the fort 
the colonists moved northward, took possession themselves of Crown 
Point, sailed the length of Lake Champlain, and by the autumn 
found Montreal in their hands. Instead of suffering themselves 
to be crowded back upon their own settlements, they carried the 
war into the enemy's country. Their strategy was of the highest 
order, for it pushed the field of immediate operations two hundred 
miles away from their neighborhood up to the line of the St. Law- 
rence, and in addition put the enemy on the defensive. Was it not 
precisely this that Demosthenes urged the Athenians to do when 
the wily Philip of Macedon threatened descent upon Greece ? 
" Strengthen our northern colonies," said the great, earnest orator; 
" fight Philip where he is, at home ! *' But lethargy following a 
long period of supremacy and fading public spirit had beset Athens, 
and her citizens could not be roused. Those fertile, robust colonists, 
of '75, however, who had never read a Phillipic nor ever heard of 
Macedon, became for the moment generals under the impulse of their 
new and absorbing cause. That early surprise of Ticonderoga proved 
far more than an incident. It was military forecast. It gave us 
territory ; it gave us time ; it gave us confidence ; it saved us our 
settlements ; it gave us many cannon then much needed ; and it sig- 
nally facilitated military operations elsewhere in the field. We 
must credit it with most valuable advantages secured and propor- 
tionate dangers avoided. 

And what was the exploit ? An old story often told, but still 
bright as the firesides around which that story was told again and 
again in that day among our northern hills and valleys. It was an 
exploit at which our hardy ancestors were adepts — a bit of skillful 
by-play, a well-laid surprise, the leap of a panther out of the woods,, 
the swoop of an eagle upon its prey ! 

In the month of April, 1775, when the war opened, you would 
have found Captain Delaplace's Company of the Twenty-Sixth Regi- 
ment of British regulars doing so-called garrison duty at the old fort. 
It numbered less than fifty men. What they were there for was, . 
perhaps, to them a puzzle, and no doubt a sleepy, idle life they had 
of it. Had they sniffed the danger in the air there would have been 
work enough on hand, repairing walls and watching the roads. But 



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turn in another direction. In that same month of April, the moment 
the Lexington Alarm was sounded and war was accepted as inevit- 
able, you would have found many men all over New England and 
New York looking instinctively toward Ticonderoga. Can there be 
any doubt of this ? There were some thousand old soldiers of the 
previous war still living in those colonies whose thoughts would im- 
mediately revert to that strategic point. It was the one point to 
which they were marched in the old campaigns. If it was important 
then it was still more important now, and the necessity of securing 
it for the colonies at once presented itself. John Brown of Pittsfield 
advised the Massachusetts Provincial Congress to seize it "as soon 
as possible." Benedict Arnold talked of it on his march from New 
Haven to Lexington. Parsons, Wyllys, Mott and others of Con- 
necticut. Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, Adams and 
Hancock of Boston— and how many more ? — all had the matter in 
mind and at heart. But the men among the multitude whom we 
have to do with are the men who acted. It is the men who took time 
"by the forelock and the fort by surprise that interest us on an oc- 
casion like this. 

Two expeditions against the fortress were set on foot simul- 
taneously in two different quarters. The one best planned and first 
" mobilized " succeeded. Should we be surprised to learn that its 
starting point was Hartford, Connecticut ? Not, when we recall that 
colony's exertions to do her part with her neighboring colonies to 
keep Ticonderoga in English hands in the French and Indian War. 
Her anxiety for its possession was none the less active in the present 
crisis, and she was ready for the enterprise. The last days of the 
April session of the Assembly at Hartford had been devoted to the 
serious and exciting business of war preparation. Profoundly moved 
by the Lexington Alarm, popular sentiment in favor of resistance 
had acquired overwhelming force. Young men were arming, old 
men advising. As everywhere else, energetic leaders and newly ap- 
pointed officers discussed measures, plans, prospects. They canvassed 
the field in public and private, in knots and groups, on the corner 
and at the hearthstones ; and the uppermost question with them all 
was — "Lexington means war — the next move what?" It was a ques- 
tion that could have found more than one answer, but one of those 
groups answered it in its own way and thereby became famous. It 
was answered in a very resolute, practical and telling fashion. Those 



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men offset the Lexington raid by promptly seizing Ticonderoga — and 
in the step we have a touch of righteons i-etaliation as well as good 
strategy. 

The Hartford enterprise initiated secretly, and was at once private 
and semi-official. Who first urged the project, who was the moving 
spirit in the company, we cannot venture to say with certainty. One 
of their number, Colonel Samuel H. Parsons, of New London, leaves 
us this brief record in the case: "On my way to Hartford," he 
writes to Joseph Trumbull, "I fell in with Captain Arnold, who 
gave me an account of the state of Ticonderoga, and that a great 
number of brass cannon were there. On my arrival at Hartford, 
■Col. Sam. Wyllys, Mr. Deane and myself first undertook and pro- 
jected taking that fort; and with the assistance of three other persons 
procured money, men, etc., and sent out on this expedition without 
any consultation with Assembly or others." "This I mention," adds 
Parsons, "only for this reason, that 'tis matter of diversion to me to 
see the various competitors for the honor of concerting and carrying 
this matter into execution contending so strenuously about a matter, 
in the execution of which all concerned justly deserve applause." 
With other records in corroboration we are thus in possession of the 
names of at least three of the originators of and prime movers in the 
Connecticut scheme — Parsons, Wyllys, Deane. It is equally clear 
that the name of Benedict Arnold should be associated with these 
three as an originator, but his efforts, it will appear, were identified 
with another undertaking. 

The sinews of the expedition, money and men, were provided 
forthwith.. Borrowing upon their own notes three hundred and 
eighty pounds from the State Treasury, Parsons and his associates, 
increased to eleven, placed the funds in the hands of three trusted 
individuals— Phelps, Mott and Romans— with directions to proceed to 
Western Massachusetts and the Green Mountain settlements, and 
there organize a force to capture the foi-t. They were to act accord- 
ing to their best judgment. From Hartford to Ticonderoga is a dis- 
tance, as the road goes, of two hundred miles. At Salisbury, Conn., 
on the route, the three men in question were joined by thirteen 
others, selected for their known integrity, loyalty and enthusiasm. 
Among them were Bigelow, Bull, Blagden, Babcock, Halsey, Nichols 
and others, subsequently meritorious officers in the Continental army. 
These sixteen men were the nucleus of the expedition in the field. 



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At Salisbury they agreed to make their way on horseback, unarmed, 
like casual travellers or traders, to the town of Sheffield, Massa- 
chusetts, where they proceeded to plan and execute. Two of their 
number were sent West to Albany to buy provisions and put them 
on the road to Ticonderoga. The rest pushing on to Pittsfield the 
next day found there some willing spirits who joined heart and soul 
in the enterprise; among them John Brown and Colonel Easton. 
These two advised the Connecticut party to enlist men from that 
vicinity, and accordingly Mott and Easton struck out to Williams- 
town and Jericho and quickly picked up forty resolute volunteers. 
Sixty men now in the party, and all headed by different roads for- 
Bennington in the Grants. There more. men were sent off with 
Connecticut money to buy provisions, and two others, Phelps and 
Hiccock, were entrusted with the secret mission of proceeding in ad- 
vance to spy out the fortress, Joshua-like, and report its condition. 
Phelps shrewdly played the lumbering countryman passing that way, 
and dropped in to be shaved by the garrison barber. He found mat- 
ters as he hoped to find them, and returned to report that the red- 
coats were still listless and unsuspicious. 

At Bennington also we meet with one of the striking figures of 
the exploit — Ethan Allen ! The pride of the Green Mountain Boys, 
eccentric and fearless, with one hundred and fifty comrades of his; 
own stamp, he added momentum to the force and picturesqueness to> 
the character of the expedition. Bennington is sixty miles from 
Ticonderoga. As the object of the enterprise could no longer be 
concealed, small parties of men were sent out on all the roads lead- 
ing to the fortress, with orders to delay every person they met. But 
even with this precaution it is remarkable that no lurking tory or 
treacherous volunteer, with an eye to the reward for information he- 
might expect from the British, found his way to the fort in the five- 
days that intervened before the surprise. On Sunday night, May 7, 
all were at Castleton, twenty miles southwest of the coveted strong- 
hold. Here final organization was effected. A sort of military 
Executive Committee was formed, with Mott at the head, while Allen 
was placed in command of the force, now over two hundred strong, 
with Easton as second and Seth Warner as third. 

And here at Castleton suddenly appeared another figure no less 
striking than Allen's — Benedict Arnold! As yet unknown he boldly 
presented himself in camp, with the startling demand upon the Com- 



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mittee to surrender the command of the expedition to himself. Who 
was he, they asked, and why such assumption of authority ? 

With Arnold is associated the second enterprise for the capture of 
Ticonderoga referred to. After his conversation in the matter with 
Colonel Parsons at Hartford, he marched on with his company to 
Boston to find that its services were not in immediate demand. The 
Ticonderoga suggestion absorbed his mind. Whether he had first 
proposed the surprise to Parsons or whether Parsons conceived of it 
after the conversation may never be known, but that both men im- 
mediately acted upon the hint, and independently of each other, is a 
matter of history. How Parsons 1 activity culminated we have seen. 
Arnold was equally prompt and energetic, and is deserving of about 
the same meed of praise for his personal efforts that one would 
award to any individual of the expedition in hand. Instead of re- 
turning to Hartford to associate himself with Parsons and the others — 
and here, no doubt, we see the assertion of his high-born spirit and 
ambition to command — he turned immediately to the Massachusetts 
authorities and urged them to undertake the surprise on their own 
account. Succeeding in his application, he received a commission as 
a Massachusetts Colonel, and was given due authority to raise a regi- 
ment in the western part of the colony and seize Ticonderoga. 
Without delay he set out on his secret errand, and arrived at Castle- 
ton only to find, as we have seen, that the Connecticut party had 
forestalled him. Not to be baffled, however, he made the claim that 
the chief command belonged to him as holding the highest com" 
mission and from the highest authority. But the expedition was 
fully organized, and had accepted the authority of the Connecticut 
party, which, though private and self-constituted, was known to be 
representative and semi-official as supported by a loan from the public 
Treasury. Arnold's demand, accordingly, was scouted and resisted. 
Much parley and angry talk ensued, with the result that the new- 
comer was compelled to yield his point and accept an honorary but 
honorable place at the head of the force as a quasi leader side by 
side with Ethan Allen. 

On the heels of the Arnold episode came the report into camp that 
the Ticonderoga garrison had at last got wind of the Yankee enter- 
prise and were prepared to receive it. But nothing would daunt 
those determined souls. Half were frontiersmen — all that we are 
accustomed to imagine as embodied in the make-up of the Green 



62 



Mountain Boy. They were not to be frightened. Mott declared he 
would not return to Hartford until he had at least marched around 
the fortress if he could not get in. All showed the spirit of the 
old Spartan, when told that in a coming action with the Persians he 
would find their arrows pouring in so thickly as to hide the sun. 
" Well," was his confident reply, " so much the better! we shall then 
have the advantage of fighting in the shade ! " 

Finally, on the night of May 9, the determined band reaches 
Shoreham, on the eastern side of Lake Champlain, and prepares to 
cross to Ticonderoga opposite, a distance of two miles. Ferriage is 
slow from lack of boats, and at 4 o'clock on the next morning, in 
spite of Allen's and Arnold's best exertions, not more than eighty- 
five men are over. As daylight will discover the movement to the 
-enemy, the attack must be made at once, and fully alive to this the 
leaders waste no time. Allen stops a moment to harangue the com- 
pany, closing with some such words as these : — " Friends and fellow 
.soldiers : I now propose to advance before you. and in person conduct 
you through the gate; for we must this morning either quit our pre- 
tensions to valor or possess ourselves of this fortress in a few min- 
utes; and inasmuch as it is a desperate attempt (which none but the 
bravest men .dare undertake), I do not urge it on any contrary to his 
will. You that will undertake it, voluntarily, poise your firelocks ! " 
Every musket comes to the front, and all push forward with Allen 
and Arnold conspicuous at their head. As they near the sally-port 
of the frowning work, a sentinel snaps his musket and quickly re- 
treats. The main gate is found closed, but the narrow wicket is 
open, and through it the party dashes impetuously one by one, and 
immediately re-forms in the centre of the parade. The garrison is 
asleep ! Ticonderoga is taken ! 

As the awakened regulars came tumbling out of their quarters 
they were instantly made prisoners. And as for Ethan Allen, can 
the pen do him more gi'aphic honor than he receives from the artist's 
pencil in the illustration on the programme of the evening ? Eoused 
from his dreams of security by some rude thumping on his door, 
the Commander of the post made his appearance in the uniform of 
the hour, and with a flickering light beheld the stalwart, threaten- 
ing form of the Green Mountain Alexander. A pointed conversation 
thereupon took place, and one form of it is as good as another. The 
form Ave like the best — that which can never be erased from our 



63 

school books or our histories — is the best authenticated.* " By what 
authority do you demand the surrender of this fort ?" exclaimed the 
British hero in white. The intensity of the confusion that must 
have overcome him in Allen's answer can only be imagined ! " In 
the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!' 1 ' 1 re- 
plied his captor, and the beginning of the end of England's domina- 
tion in America was sealed ! 



Ticonderoga with Thermopylae to-day are things of the past. 
Hardly can they appear in a famous role again. Modern engines of 
war and modern military methods have disarmed them of their 
importance. And yet they remain representative names. Thermop- 
ylae may no longer have its terrors, but along the Rhine and the 
Danube what ? Mighty contests of the recent past and contests 
yet to come. Ancient Europe in one respect finds its counterpart — 
a more brilliant counterpart — in modern Europe. War there still 
remains an imminent and a blighting possibility. With us Ticon- 
deroga has no counterpart. No fortresses loom up like shadows 
within our borders; no standing armies wither the hand of industry. 
We rejoice that this is so to-day at least, and may it ever be ! And 
for this situation, the greatest of blessings, let us profoundly 
acknowledge our indebtedness to the American Revolution. It was 
that Revolution that sounded here the death-knell of the old world 
system of rival separate States, divided from each other by walls and 
battlements and glittering arms, and dedicated this Continent to the 
system of United States, locked in a common national brotherhood 
under the sheltering panoply of peace. 

* Allen's reply appears first in Goodwin's "American Revolution," under date of 
August, 1775. It is also given by Allen in his autobiography or narrative. The exclamation 
has been treated with some humor and sarcasm, as being highly bombastic and without 
point. The Continental Congress, it is claimed, had not yet, by a few hours, convened at 
Philadelphia, and its authority was a mere shadow. It will be recalled, however, that the 
First Congress, which had adjourned only a few months before, formed the American 
" Association," to whose authority the Whig element subscribed, and then provided for its 
own successor. Delegates to the latter, or Second Congress, were then (May, 1775) assem- 
bling at Philadelphia to proceed with the deliberations, and advise as the situation might 
demand. The two Congresses were looked upon as essentially a continuous body, repre- 
senting a new governing force in the Colonies which the emergency had created. It was the 
talk of the day ; its advice respected ; its recommendations carried out. To Allen and his 
men it was anything but a shadow, and in demanding the fortress, the authority of Con- 
gress, whether given or cot, was the one authority to evoke. The reply came naturally. 




MEMBERSHIP ROLL. 



Elected. 
1891. 



Abbot, Everett Vergnies, 

Great-great-grandson of Major Abiel Abbot (1741-1809), 
Muster-Master and Paymaster, with rank of Cap- 
tain, in Colonel Nahum Baldwin's Regiment New 
Hampshire Militia, raised to reinforce the Continental 
Army at New York, September 16, 1776 ; 2d Major 
5th Regiment New Hampshire Militia, December 11, 
1776 ; Major in Colonel Moses Nichol's Regiment 
New Hampshire Militia, raised to reinforce the Conti- 
nental Army at Ticonderoga, June 29, 1777 ; 1st Ma- 
jor 5th Regiment New Hampshire Militia, March 30, 
1781 ; Member of New Hampshire Provincial Con- 
gress. 1777, 1779 and 1780. 



No. of 
Insignia. 

712 



1885. Abney, John Rutledge, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant William Abney, of 
Major Andrew Williamson's Battalion South Carolina 
Militia. 



1887. Aborn, Robert W., 

Grandson of Privateersman Daniel Aborn, Commander 
of the Privateer Sloop-of-War "Chance" of Rhode 
Island. 



11 



1886. Adams, Charles H., 

Grandson of Ensign Anthony Egbertse (1753-1833), 1st 
Regiment Albany County Militia, Colonel Jacob 
Lansing, Jr., New York. 



91 



66 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Addoms, Samuel Kissam, 57 

Grandson of Lieutenant Jonas Addoms, of New York 
(1753-1837), 2d Regiment Continental Corps of Artil- 
lery, Colonel John Lamb. 



1891. Alden, Charles Henry. Lieutenant-Colonel and Sur- 
geon, U. S. A., 678 
Grandson of Private Henry White (1752-1837), Private 
in Captain Sabin Mann's Company, Colonel Hardee's 
Regiment Massachusetts Militia, April, 1775. 
Also, Grandson of Private Eliab Alden (1762-1841), 
Private in Captain Joshua White's Company, Colo- 
nel Eben Sprout's Regiment Massachusetts Militia,. 
"Dartmouth Alarm,'" May, 1778, and in Expedition 
to Rhode Island, 1779. 



1891. Alexander, Henry Eugene, 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Thomas Noble Stockett 
(1747-1802), 1st Lieutenant in Captain Thomas Wat- 
kin's Company, South River Battalion, Anne Arun- 
del County (Maryland) Militia, February 13, 1776; 2d 
Surgeon's Assistant to Colonel William Richardson's 
Battalion, Maryland Flying Camp Militia, September 
26, 1776 ; later Surgeon Maryland Line ; then trans- 
ferred to Recruiting Department, and served to close 
of war. 



1891. Allen, John Platt, 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Daniel Platt (1738- 
1826), Ensign in Captain John Ely's Company 6th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel S. H. Parsons, 
May 1, 1775; 1st Lieutenant in 4th Battalion Con- 
necticut Militia, November 6, 1777 ; Captain in Col- 
onel Worthington's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
July, 1779; Lieutenant in Captain Wright's Com- 
pany of Militia, "New Haven Alarm,'' 1779. 



b7 

No. of 
Insignia. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Aaron Hall (1760- 
1839), Captain Stephen Hall's Company 7th Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel Heman Swift, May 24, 
1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Archelaus Allyn (1749- 
1828), Private in Captain Isaac Cook's Company 
Wallingford (Connecticut) Militia, "Lexington 
Alarm,'' April 19, 1775; Private in 2d Company, Cap- 
tain Street Hall, 7th Regiment Connecticut Line, 
Colonel Charles Webb, July 8, 1775. 



1890. Allen, Theodore Lathrop, 437 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Solomon Allen (1751- 
1821), 2d Regiment Continental Light Dragoons, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Jameson, Conn. 



1891. Anderson, John Schuyler, 579, 

Great-great-grandson of Josiah Hornblower, Speaker of 
Lower House (Assembly) Provincial Congress, New 
Jersey, 1780; Member of Upper House (Council), 
1781-4. 



1890. Anderson, Joseph Long worth, M. D., 458 

Grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Clough An- 
derson (1750-1826), Captain 5th Regiment Virginia 
Continental Infantry, January 26, 1776; Major 1st 
Regiment Virginia Continental Infantry, February 
10, 1778; later, Lieutenant-Colonel 6th Regiment Vir- 
ginia Continental Infantry. 



1890. Anderson, Larz, 2d, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Clough 
Anderson (1750-1826), Captain 5th Regiment Virginia 
Continental Infantry, January 26, 1776; Major 1st 
Regiment Virginia Continental Infantry, February 
10, 1778; later, Lieutenant-Colonel 6th Regiment Vir- 
ginia Continental Infantry. 



68 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Andrews, James M., 505 

Great-grandson of Corporal Miles Andras (1735 ), 

Captain Hezekiah Willes' Company, Colonel Wol- 
cott's Regiment Connecticut Militia, December, 1775. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Abel Whitlock, Pri- 
vate in Captain Samuel Comstock's Company, 9tli 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel 
John Mead, August, 1776 ; Private in Captain Lock- 
wood's Company, Connecticut Coast Guards, 1780. 



1888. Angell, Malcom Henry, 214 

Great-grandson of Colonel Israel Angell, Major Rhode 
Island Militia, 1775 ; Major 11th Regiment Conti- 
uental Infantry, Colonel Hitchcock, 1776; Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel 2d Battalion Rhode Island Continental 
Infantry. Colonel Hitchcock, 1776. 



1888. Anthony, Richard Amerman, 159 

Great-grandson of Captain Nicholas N. Anthony, 3d 
Regiment New York County Militia, Colonel 
Abraham P. Lott. 



1890. Arms, Frank Thornton, 

Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Henry Mason (1759- 
1836), Sergeant in Captain Latham's Company of 
Connecticut Artillery, stationed at Groton March 6, 
1781. wounded at Groton Heights, September 6, 1781. 

Also, Great- great-grandson of Ensign Daniel Billings 
(1750-1801), Sergeant in 3d Company, Captain Sam- 
uel Prentice, 6th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Col- 
onel S. H. Parsons, 1775; Ensign 10th Regiment 
•Connecticut Line, Colonel S. H. Parsons, 1775. 



69 

No, of 
Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Captain John Wil- 
liams (1739-1781), Private in Captain McClelland's 
Company Woodstock (Connecticut) Militia, Lexing- 
ington Alarm, April, 1775 ; Private in Captain John 
Chapman's Company 6th Regiment Connecticut Mil- 
itia, Colonel S. H. Parsons, May 6, 1775 ; Ensign in 
4th Company, Captain Wheeler, 4th Battalion, Colo- 
nel Samuel Selden, Connecticut Militia; Lieutenant 
in Captain William Stanton's Company, 8th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver 
Smith, Septembers, 1776; Captain in Colonel Oba- 
diah Johnson's Regiment Connecticut Militia, Janu- 
ary 1, 1778, served in Rhode Island; Captain in 
Connecticut Militia, New Haven Alarm, July, 1779; 
Captain in 8th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 17S0 ; 
killed in action at Groton Heights, September 6, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-great-great-grandson of Private Elna- 
than Perkins (1717-1781), Connecticut Militia, killed 
in action at Groton Heights, September 6, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Peter Comstock 
(1732-1802), 3d Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel 
Jonathan Latimer, 1781. 



1890. Armstrong, Philander B., 432 

Great-grandson of Private Henry Eads (1755-1841), 
Captain Thomas Moi*seland's Company, Colonel 
Brown's Regiment Maryland Militia, 1776 to 1782. 



1891. Arnold, Frank, 573 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Philip Padelford (1753- 
1815), Surgeon's Mate, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's 
Regiment Rhode Island Militia, 1778, and served on 
ship-of-war "General Mifflin," 17S0. 



70 



No. of 
Insignia. 



Also, Great -great -grandson of Captain - Lieutenant 
James Arnold (1723-1793), 3d Lieutenant 1st Com- 
pany Warwick (Rhode Island) Militia, Captain Job 
Randall, 1776; Captain Lieutenant Kent County 
(Rhode Island) Militia, 1778; Signer of the Decla- 
ration of Independence of Rhode Island, 1776; 
Assistant to the Governor of Rhode Island, 1775, 
1776, 1778, 1780; Member of Rhode Island Council 
of War, 1777 ; Member of Rhode Island Assembly, 
1775, 1782; Justice of the Court of Common Pleas 
for Warwick, 1782-3. 



1890. Arnold, James Oliver, 

Great-great-grandson of Caleb Arnold (1725-1784), Mem- 
ber of Rhode Island Provincial Congress, 1773 to 1778, 
and Member Rhode Island War Committee, 1780. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private William Arnold (1753- 
1806), Captain Stephen Kimball's Company, Rhode 
Island Militia, Colonel Daniel Hitchcock, 1775. 



1890. Austin, Joseph Eliot, 420> 

Grandson of Fifer Appollus Austin (1760-1842), Captain 
Harmon's Company, 4th Regiment Connecticut Line, 
Colonel John Durkee, February 16, 1777. 



1889. Babcock, Harry Saltonstall, 10& 

Great-grandson of Colonel Harry Babcock (1736-1800), 
served as Volunteer at Boston, 1775; Colonel of 4th 
Regiment Rhode Island Continental Infantry, Janu- 
ary, 1776; honorably discharged May, 1776, on ac- 
count of illness. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Major-General Joshua 
Babcock (1707-1783), Major-General Rhode Island 
Colony Brigade, October, 1775; Chief Justice of 
Rhode Island, 1775; Member of State Council of 
War, 1775 to 1780; Member of Rhode Island Assem- 
bly, 1775, and Speaker of same, 1778. 



71 

—■ . ., No. of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Babcock, Henry Denison, 411 

Gi*eat-great-grandson of Colonel Harry Babcock (1736- 
1800), served as Volunteer at Boston, 1775; Colonel 
of 4th Regiment Rhode Island Continental Infantry, 
January, 1776; honorably discharged May, 1776, on 
account of illness. 
Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Major-General 
Joshua Babcock (1707-1783), Major-General Rhode 
Island Colony Brigade, October, 1775 ; Chief Justice 
of Rhode Island, 1775 ; Member of State Council of 
War, 1775 to 1780 ; Member of Rhode Island Assem- 
bly, 1775, and Speaker of same, 1778. 



1892. Bacon, William Post Hawes, 

Great-grandson of Private Richard Bacon (1757- 
Captain Hezekiah Welles' Company, Colonel Erastus 
Wolcott's Regiment Connecticut State Troops, 1776, 
at seige of Boston ; Private in Captain J. P. Wylly's 
Company, Colonel S. B. Webb's Regiment "Addi- 
tional Continental," May 8, 1777; captured on Long 
Island, December 10, 1777; Prisoner two years and 
nine months; Private in Elisha Hopkins' Company 
3d Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel S. B. Webb, 
January 1, 1781. 

Also, Great-grandson of Elisha Skinner (1753-1823), 
served in the Commissary's Department under Com- 
missary-General Jeremiah Wadsworth of Connecti- 
cut. 

Also, Great-gi'eat-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Haws 
(1727-1818), Captain Fairbanks' Company Massachu- 
setts Militia, and representative to General Court, 
1778-81. 



1888. Badger, William Whittlesley, 193 

Great-grandson of Colonel Joseph Badger, 10th Regi- 
ment New Hampshire Militia, 1776. 



Xo. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Baker, George Livingston, 

Great-grandson of Private Jesse Davidson (1758 ). 

Private in Captain James Gilmore's Company of 
Windham (New Hampshire) Militia, July 8, 1775; 
Private in Captain Jesse Wilson's Company, Colonel 
Moses Nichol's Regiment New Hampshire Militia, 
raised to reinforce the Northern Army, July 21, 1777. 

1892. Baker, Reverend George Stuart, 778 

Great-grandson of Private Joseph Wheeler (1735-1793), 
Private in Captain Samuel Stone's Company, Colonel 
William Prescott's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
"Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Member of 
Massachusetts Provincial Congress. 

1889. * Baker, Peter Carpenter (died May 19, 1889), 537 

Great-grandson of First Lieutenant Increase Carpenter, 
Queens County Battalion Militia of New York. 

1891. Balch, Collins Lawton, 

Great-great-grandson of John Collins, of Rhode Isl- 
and (1717-1795), Member Continental Congress, 1778- 
80 ; Signer of the Rhode Island Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, March 4, 1776; Member of Rhode Island 
Assembly, 1775-6. 

1890. Balch, Lewis, M. Z>., 157 

Great-grandson of Colonel John Jay (1745-1829), Mem- 
ber of the Continental Congress ; President of same 
three years; prepared draft of Constitution of New 
York, 1777, and appointed first Chief Justice under it; 
Chairman of the New York Council of Safety ; Mem- 
ber of the New York Provincial Congress ; appointed 
Colonel of 2d Regiment New York City Militia, Octo- 
ber 27, 1775. 

1890. Baldwin, Charles Marvin, 

Great-great-grandson of Roger Sherman (1721-1793), 
Member of Continental Congress from Connecticut, 
1775 to 1789 ; Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 



73 

Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Baldwin, Henry de Forest, 

Great-great-grandson of Roger Sherman (1721-1793), 
Member of Continental Congress from Connecticut, 
1775 to 1789; Signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. 

1891. Baldwin, Simeon, 

Great-grandson of Roger Sherman 1 1721-1793), Mem- 
ber of Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1775 
to 1789 ; Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

1889. Baldwin, Walter Sherman, 203 

Great-great-grandson of Private Benjamin Goldthwait, 
Captain David Parks' Company Massachusetts 
Militia, December 20, 1775. 



1891. Bangs, Anson Cuyler, 607 

Great-grandson of Captain John N. Bleecker (1739- 
1825), 6th Company Albany County Militia, Colonel 
Jacob Lansing, Jr., October 20, 1775; previously (Au- 
gust 3, 1775) Assistant Deputy Commissary -General 
Northern Department. 

1891. Banks, Augustine, 

Great-grandson of Private John Banks, Private in 
Captain Jonathan Dimon's Company, Connecticut 
Militia, Lexington Alarm, April 19. 1775; Private in 
Captain Ebenezer Hill's Company, Colonel Samuel 
Whiting's Regiment Connecticut Militia, October 5 T 
1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain David Olmstead, Cor- 
poral 4th Company, Captain Joseph Hart, 7th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Charles Webb, 
August 7, 1775 ; Sergeant in Captain Benedict's Com- 
pany, Colonel Bradley's Battalion Connecticut Mili- 
tia, August 22, 1776 ; Captain in Colonel Roger Enos' 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, June 3, 1778 (on the 
Hudson); Captain in Connecticut "Provisional"" 
Regiment, March, 1781. 



74 

No. Of 
Elected. Insigaia. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutentant John Foster (1742- 
1788), Captain Anther Smith's Company, Ulster 
County Militia, Colonel Jonathan Hasbrouck, Octo- 
ber 11, 1775. 



1891. Banks, David, 507 

Grandson of Captain and Quartermaster David Banks 



(1743-1815), New Jersey Militia. 



1892. Banister, Eeverend Thomas Lewis, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel John Banister 
(1709-1790), Lawson's Brigade Virginia Line; Mem- 
ber of Virginia Convention, 1776-7; Member of 
Continental Congress, 1778-9 ; Signer of the Articles 
of Confederation, 1781. 



1891. Barclay, James Searle, 498 

Great-grandson of Ensign John Barclay (1749-1816). 
Ensign Philadelphia Associators, 1776; Member of 
Philadelphia Light Horse, 1780. 



1891. Barker, Fordyce D wight, 33 

Great-great-grandson of Major Abiel Abbot (1741-1809), 
Muster-Master and Paymaster, with rank of Captain, 
in Colonel Nahum Baldwin's Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Militia, raised to reinforce the Continental army 
at New York, Sept. 16, 1776 ; 2d Major 5th Regiment 
New Hampshire Militia, December 11, 1776; Major 
in Colonel Moses Nichols' Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Militia, raised to reinforce the Continental 
army at Ticonderoga, June 29, 1777; 1st Major 5th 
Regiment New Hampshire Militia, March 30, 1781; 
Member of New Hampshire Provincial Congress, 
1777, 1779 and 1780. 



75 

Elected. Insignia. 

1885. Barnard, Horace, 

Great-grandson of Captain John Barnard (1722 ), 

Lieutenant 2d Company Colonel Erastus Wolcott's 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1776; Lieutenant 1st 
Company 6th Battalion Colonel John Chester Wads- 
worth's Brigade Connecticut Militia, 1776; Captain 
3d Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Samuel 
Wyllys, 1777: retired by consolidation, January 1, 
1781. 



1890. Barnes, Alfred Cutler, 372 

Great-grandson of Private Amos Morris (1726-1801), 
Captain William Van Duersen's Company, Con- 
necticut State Guards, stationed at New Haven 
during the " Alarm," 1781. 

1890. Barnes. Henry Burr. 361 

Great-grandson of Private Amos Morris (1726-1801), 
Captain William Van Duersen's Company, Con- 
necticut State Guards, stationed at New Haven 
during the "Alarm," 1781. 

1891. Barnes. William D., 553 

Great-grandson of Private Amos Morris (1726-1801), 
Captain William Van Duersen's Company Con- 
necticut State Guards, stationed at New Haven 
during the "Alarm," 1781. 

1891. Barrow, James Thomas, 514 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel John Brown 
(1744-1780), served under Ethan Allen at Ticonder- 
oga, 1775 ; in Arnold's Expedition to Canada and at 
assault on Quebec, 1775-6; Lieutenant-Colonel Con- 
tinental army, 1776 ; conducted the expedition against 
Ticonderoga, 1777; killed in action in the Mohawk 
Valley, 1780; Member of Massachusetts Committee 
of Correspondence, 1774-5; Member of Massachu- 
setts Provincial Congress, 1775. 



76 

No. of 

Elected. lasignia, 

1891. Barrows, Charles Clifford, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Captain David Nye (1738-1816), Pri- 
vate in Captain Noah Fearing's Company Wareham 
(Massachusetts) Militia, ''Lexington Alarm," April 
19, 1775; Captain 14th Company 4th Regiment Ply- 
mouth County (Massachusetts) Militia, in Expedition 
to Rhode Island, December 10, 1776 ; Captain Ware- 
ham Company in Continental Service, January 13, 
1778; Captain Wareham Militia, "Dartmouth 
Alarm," September 5, 1778; Captain of 2d Company 
Wareham Militia, "Falmouth Alarm," Colonel 
Sprout, September 1778; Captain 4th Regiment Ply- 
mouth County Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel White, in 
Expedition to Rhode Island, July 3, 1780; Member 
of Wareham Committee of Correspondence, March 
27, 1780. 

1891. Barrows, Elliot Thomas, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Nemiah Cobb 
(1752-1841), Private in Captain John Bridgham's 
Company, Colonel Cotton's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, October 7, 1775; Ensign in same, 1775; Pri- 
vate in Lieutenant Shurtleff's Company, Colonel 
Lathrop's Regiment Plymouth Militia, December 11, 
1776, at Bristol, Rhode Island ; Lieutenant in Captain 
Jesse Sturtevant's Company, Colonel John Jacob's 
Regiment, detached from the Militia to reinforce the 
Continental Army in Rhode Island, July 25, 1780; 
1st Lieutenant 7th Company 1st Regiment Massachu- 
setts Continental Infantry, July 1, 1781. 

1891. Barrows, Ira, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Aaron Barrows 
(1743-1801), Private in Captain Jabez Ellis' Company 
South Attleboro' (Massachusetts) Minute Men, "Lex- 
ington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Private same Com- 
pany, Colonel Daggett's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, December, 1776; 2d Lieutenant in Captain 
Whitmarsh's Company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's 
Regiment Massachusetts Militia, on Expedition to- 
Rhode Island, 1778. 



77 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1887. Barrows, Henry H., 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Aaron Barrows (1?'43- 
1801), Private in Captain Jabez Ellis 1 Company 
South Attleboro' (Mass.) Minute Men, "Lexington 
Alarm," April 19, 1775; Private same company Col- 
onel Daggett's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, De- 
cember, 1776 ; 2d Lieutenant in Captain Whitmarsh's 
Company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's Regiment 
Massachusetts Militia on Expedition to Rhode Island, 
1778. 

1891. Bartlett, Ezra Albert, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire 
(1728-1795), Signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence; Member Continental Congress, 1775-8; Chief- 
Justice Court of Common Pleas, 1780; Justice 
Supreme Court, New Hampshire, 1782; Chief -Justice 
Supreme Coui't, New Hampshire, 1783. 

1884. * Bartow, Morey Hale (died 1886), 

Great-grandson of Captain Nathaniel Scribner, of 
Colonel Henry Luddington's Regiment New York 
Militia. 

1889. Bartow, Samuel Blackwell, Jr., 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Jacob Blackwell 

(1717 ), Queens County Militia, and Member First 

New York Provincial Congress. 

1889. Beckwith, Leonard Forbes, 102' 

Great-grandson of Colonel Jacob Blackwell (1717 ). 

Queens County Militia, and Member First New York 
Provincial Congress. 

1891. Bedell, Edwin, 508 

Great-great-grandson of Private Reuben Collard, Sus- 
sex County Militia, New Jersey. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private David Canfield, New 
Jersey Militia, died from wounds received in action 
at Springfield, New Jersey, December 16, 1776. 



78 

No. of 
Elected . Insignia 

1889. Beers, Lucius H., 

Great-grandson of Private Robert Newell, Private Oth 
Company, Captain Shipman, 7th Regiment Connect- 
icut Militia in Continental Service, Colonel Charles 
Webb, at Siege of Boston, 1775; Private in Captain 
Kirtland's Company 6th Regiment Connecticut Line, 
Colonel Return J. Meigs, April, 1777; Private Cap- 
tain Baldwin's Company 7th Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Colonel Heman Swift, June 28, 1780; Private 
in Captain Selden's Company 4th Regiment Connect- 
icut Line, Colonel Zebulon Butler, January 1, 1781. 



1890. Belden, Charles D., 460 

Great-great-grandson of 2d Lieutenant Jacob Van Tas- 
sel, 2d Lieutenant in Colonel Joseph Drake's Regi- 
ment Westchester County Militia, March 17, 1777. 



1886. Belden, William, 

Grandson of Captain Ezekiel Porter Belden, Lieuten- 
ant Sheldon's Dx*agoons, Connecticut, 1776 ; Captain 
same, 1777; resigned, 1780; previously 2d Lieutenant 
in Colonel Bradley's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
1776. 



1887. Belknap, Robert Lenox (Life Member), 47 

Great-grandson of Captain Samuel Belknap (1735-1821), 
in command of Company of Militia which marched 
from Woburn to Concord and Cambridge, April 19, 
1775 ; Captain 1st Company 2d Regiment Middlesex 
County Militia, May, 1776; Captain Colonel Brood's 
Regiment Massachusetts Militia, October, 1775. 
Also, Great-great- grandnephew and representative of 
Major David Lenox (1753-1828), Captain 3d Pennsyl- 
vania Battalion, Colonel John Shee, 1776; captured 
at Fort George, November 16, 1776, and a prisoner 
eighteen months; exchanged, and appointed Aide-de- 
Camp, with rank of Major, on staff of Major-General 
Anthony Wayne, 177S. 



79 

No. Of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Belmont, August, 503 

Great-gTandson of Christopher Raymond Perry (1761- 
1818), served on the " Mifflin," Commander Babcock; 
captured, confined in prison ship "Jersey;" escaped 
after three months' confinement ; subsequently served 
as Midshipman on Continental frigate "Trumbull," 
Captain James Nicholson. 

1890. Benet, Ludovic, 435 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel William Scud- 
der, Sergeant in Captain McMire's Company, 1st 
Battalion 1st Establishment New Jersey Line, No- 
vember 10, 1775 ; 1st Major 3d Regiment Middlesex 
County Militia, August 9, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel 
same, September 6, 1777. 

1886. Benjamin, Arthur Bedell, 526 

Grandson of Lieutenant Aaron Benjamin, Drummer 
2d Company 5th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1775 ; 
Ensign (1777), Lieutenant (1778), and Adjutant (1780), 
8th Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel John Chand- 
ler ; detached as Adjutant, Meigs' Connecticut Light 
Regiment, and present at the storming of Stony Point, 
July 15, 1779; Adjutant 5th Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Lieutenant-Colonel Sherman, 1781; Lieutenant 
3d Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel S. B. Webb, 
1783; Lieutenant in Colonel Heman Swift's "'final 
formation," 1783. 

1885. * Benjamin, Frederick A. (died October 3, 1891), 527 

Son of Lieutenant Aaron Benjamin, Drummer 2d 
Company 5th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1775; 
Ensign (1777), Lieutenant (1778), and Adjutant (1780), 
8th Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel John Chand- 
ler; detached as Adjutant, Meigs' Connecticut Light 
Regiment, and present at the storming of Stony Point, 
July 15, 1779; Adjutant 5th Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Lieutenant-Colonel Sherman, 1781 ; Lieutenant 
3d Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel S. B. Webb, 
1783; Lieutenant in Colonel Heman Swift's "final 
formation," 1783. 



80 

No. of 
■'Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Benjamin, George Powell, 264 

Grandson of Private Nathan Benjamin, of Captain 
John Minthorn's Company, Colonel John Hathorn's 
Regiment, Orange County Militia, New York, Oc- 
tober, 1779. 



1888. Benjamin, John, 536 

Grandson of Lieutenant Aaron Benjamin, Drummer 
2d Company 5th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1775; 
Ensign (1777), Lieutenant (1778), and Adjutant (1780), 
8th Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel John Chand- 
ler; detached as Adjutant, Meigs' Connecticut Light 
Regiment, and present at the storming of Stony Point, 
July 15, 1770; Adjutant 5th Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Lieutenant-Colonel Sherman, 1781; Lieutenant 
3d Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel S. B. Webb, 
1783; Lieutenant in Colonel Heman Swift's "final 
formation,*' 1783. 



1890. Bensel, Joseph, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant William Tapp (1750-1796), 
Ensign 5th Company 1st Regiment New York Line, 
Colonel McDougal, 1775; 2d Lieutenant and Quarter- 
master same regiment, 1775 ; 2d Lieutenant in Colonel 
Nicholson's Regiment, on service in Canada, 1776; 
1st Lieutenant Captain Thomas De Witt's Company, 
3d Battalion New York Line, Colonel Peter Ganse- 
voort, 1776; resigned March 20, 1780. 



1889. * Benson, Richard Hoffman (died September 29, 1889), 

Grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Benson, New 

York Militia, Aide-de-Camp to Governor George 

Clinton, Secretary New York Provincial Congress, 

and Continental Commissary for Prisoners of War. 



SI 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Benton, Josiah Henry, 226 

Great-grandson of Private Josiah Benton (1745-1826), 
Private in Connecticut Militia from Tolland, "Lex- 
ington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Private in 5th Com- 
pany, Captain Willis, 2d Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, Colonel Spencer, May 3, 1775; Private in 
Captain Abram Tyler's Company, 17th Regiment 
Connecticut Continental Infantry, Colonel Jedediah 
Huntington, 1776; served in Battle of Long Island. 

1890. Betts, Frederic H., 319 

Grandson of Private Uriah Betts (1761-1841), Captain 
Nathan Gilbert's Company, Colonel Samuel Whit- 
ing's Regiment Connecticut Militia, October 5, 1777; 
served with Continental Army on the Hudson. 



1891. Betts, Louis Frederick Holbrook, 

Great-grandson of Private Uriah Betts (1761-1841), 
Captain Nathan Gilbert's Company, Colonel Samuel 
Whiting's Regiment Connecticut Militia, October 5, 
1777; served with Continental Army on the Hudson. 

1889. Bibby, Andrew Aldridge, 

Great-grandson of Captain John Hughes, 1st Regiment 
"Canadian" Continental Infantry, Colonel James 
Livingston. 



1890. Bickley, Lawrence Wharton, 433 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Wharton, Jr. (1735- 
1778), Member of Committee of Safety, President of 
the Council of Safety, President of the Supreme 
Executive Council of Pennsylvania, March 5, 1777; 
died in office, May 22, 1778. 



Bigelow, Clarence O.. 

Great-grandson of Adjutant Joel Bigelow, 1st Regiment 
Cumberland County Militia, New York, July 24, 1782. 



82 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Billings, David Lane, 419 

Great-great-grandson of Private Samuel Billings ( 1718- 
1781), Private in Captain Samuel Ransom's Company 
of (Wyoming) Connecticut Militia, 1776; Private in 
Captain Eldridge's Company, 1st Regiment Connecti- 
cut Line, Colonel Huntington, January 15, 1777; 
Private in Groton Militia, killed in action at Groton 
Heights, September 6, 1781. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private John Billings, Private 
in 5th Company, Captain James Chapman, 6th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel S. H. Parsons, 
May 5, 1775; Private in Preston Militia, served in 
action at Groton Heights, September 6, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Isaac Far well 
(1744-1791), 2d Lieutenant in Captain Amos Morrill's 
Company, 1st Battalion New Hampshire Militia, 
Colonel John Stark, April, 1775; 1st Lieutenant in 
1st Company 3d Regiment New Hampshire Conti- 
nental Infantry, Colonel Joseph Reed, 1775 ; Captain 
1st Company 1st Regiment New Hampshire Conti- 
nental Infantry, Colonel Cilley, November 7, 1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Samuel Weth- 
erbee (1745-1819), Private Massachusetts Militia, 
January 25, 1776, served in Canada; Captain 5th 
Company, Colonel Isaac Wyman's Regiment New 
Hampshire Militia, June, 1776. 



1890. Billings, Elmer Mandeville, 

Grandson of Private Henry H. Mandeville (1760-1847), 
Private New Jersey Militia under Captain Jonas 
Ward, November, 1776; Private in Captain Ogden's 
Company New Jersey Militia, January, 1777 ; Private 
in Lieutenant Anthony Mandeville's Company Mili- 
itia, December, 1778; Private in Captain Minard's 
Company New Jersey Militia, 1779; also served in 
New Jersey Militia, 1779-81. 



Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Billings, Franklin Swift. 409 

Great great-grandson of Private Samuel Billings (1718- 
1781), Private in Captain Samuel Ransom's Company 
of (Wyoming) Connecticut Militia, 1776; Private in 
Captain Eldridge's Company 1st Regiment Connecti- 
cut Line, Colonel Huntington, January 15, 1777; 
Private in Groton Militia, killed in action at Groton 
Heights, September 6, 1781. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private John Billings, Private 
in 5th Company, Captain James Chapman, 6th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel S. H. Parsons. 
May 5, 1775; Private in Preston Militia, served in 
action at Groton Heights, September 6, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Isaac Farwell 
(1744-1791), 2d Lieutenant in Captain Amos Morrill's 
Company, 1st Battalion New Hampshire Militia, 
Colonel John Stark, April, 1775; 1st Lieutenant in 
1st Company 3d Regiment New Hampshire Conti- 
nental Infantry, Colonel Joseph Reed, 1775 ; Captain 
1st Company 1st Regiment New Hampshh*e Conti- 
nental Infantry, Colonel Cilley, November 7, 1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Samuel Weth- 
erbee (1745-1819), Private Massachusetts Militia, 
January 25, 1776, served in Canada; Captain 5th 
Company, Colonel Isaac Wyman's Regiment New 
Hampshire Militia, June, 1776. 



1890. ^Billings, Oliver P. C, 407 

Great-grandson of Private Samuel Billings (1718-1781), 
Private in Captain Samuel Ransom's Company of 
(Wyoming) Connecticut Militia, 1776; Private in 
Captain Eldridge's Company, 1st Regiment Connecti- 
cut Line, Colonel Huntington, January 15, 1777; 
Private in Groton Militia, killed in action at Groton 
Heights, September 6, 1781. 
Also, Grandson of Private John Billings, Private in 
5th Company, Captain James Chapman, 6th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel S. H. Parsons, 
May 5, 1775; Private in Preston Militia, served in 
action at Groton Heights, September 6, 1781. 



84 



No. of 
Insignia. 



Also, Great-grandson of Captain Isaac Farwell (1744- 
1791), 2d Lieutenant in Captain Amos Morrill's Com- 
pany, 1st Battalion New Hampshire Militia, Colonel 
John Stark, April, 1775; 1st Lieutenant in 1st Com- 
pany 3d Regiment New Hampshire Continental In- 
fantry, Colonel Joseph Reed, 1775 ; Captain 1st Com- 
pany 1st Regiment New Hampshire Continental 
Infantry, Colonel Cilley, November 7, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain Samuel Wetherbee 
(1745-1819), Private Massachusetts Militia, January 
25, 1776, served in Canada; Captain 5th Company, 
Colonel Isaac Wyman's Regiment New Hampshire 
Militia, June, 1776. 



1891. Binney, Harold, 

Great-grandson of Private Josiah Talbot, Captain Samuel 
Fisher's Company, Colonel Titcomb's Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Militia. 



Bishop, David Wolfe, 162 

Grandson of Captain David Wolfe, 2d Regiment New 
York State Militia Infantry (New York County) ; 
later, Assistant Quartermaster Continental Army. 



1889. Bissell, Eugene, 748 

Grandson of Ensign John Norton, Private in Connecti- 
cut Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; 
Ensign in 18th Regiment Connecticut Militia, August 
19, 1776. 
Also, Grandson of Isaac Bissell, Private in Captain 
Elihu Kent's Company Suffield (Connecticut) Militia, 
"Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Sergeant in 
Captain John Harmon's Company, Colonel Erastus 
Wolcott's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1776; Pri- 
vate in Captain Simeon Sheldon's Company Con- 
necticut Militia, "New Haven Alarm," July, 1779. 



85 

No. of 
Insignia. 

Bissell, Eugene, Jr., 749' 

Great-grandson of Ensign John Norton, Private in 
Connecticut Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 
1775 ; Ensign in 18th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
August 19, 1776. 
Also, Great-grandson of Isaac Bissell, Private in Cap- 
tain Elihu Kent's Company Suffield (Connecticut) 
Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Ser- 
geant in Captain John Harmon's Companv, Colonel 
Erastus Wolcott's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
1776; Private in Captain Simeon Sheldon's Com- 
pany Connecticut Militia, "New Haven Alarm," 
July, 1779. 



1887. Bissell, Pelham St. George, 73 

Great-grandson of Isaac Bissell, Private in Captain 
Elihu Kent's Company Suffield (Connecticut) Militia,, 
"Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Sergeant in> 
Captain John Harmon's Company, Colonel Erastus 
Wolcott's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1776; Pri- 
vate in Captain Simeon Sheldon's Company Con- 
necticut Militia, "New Haven Alarm," July, 1779. 
Also, Great-grandson of Captain John Wemple, 1st 
Lieutenant 4th Company, 3d Battalion (Mohawk)' 
New York Militia, Colonel Frederick Fisher; Cap- 
tain same Regiment, 1781. 



1888. Bixby, Robert Forsyth, 

Great -great -grandson of Quartermaster David Foe, 
Maryland Militia. 



1890. Blakeman, Caldwell Robertson, 456 

Great-grandson of Rev. James Caldwell (1734-1781), 
Chaplain 3d Battalion, 1st Establishment New Jersey 
Line, Deputy-Quartermaster and Assistant-Commis- 
sary-General Continental Army ; murdered at Eliz- 
abethport, November 24, 1781. 



No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Blauvelt, Abram Demarest, 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Joseph Blauvelt (1714-1789), 
of Captain John M. Hogencamp's Company, Colonel 
A. Hawkes Hay's Regiment Orange County Militia, 
New York. 
Also, Great-great-gi'andson of Major Johannes James 
Blauvelt, Orange County Militia, New York, 177(5. 

1889. Blauvelt, David J., 

Grandson of Captain Thomas Blanch (1740-1 K-J3), of 
Colonel Asher Holmes' Regiment New Jersey State 
Volunteers in Continental Service. 

1889. Blauvelt, John De Witt, 215 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Joseph Blauvelt (1714-1789), 

of Captain John M. Hogencamp's Company, Colonel 

A. Hawkes Hay's Regiment Orange County Militia, 

New York. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Major Johannes James 

Blauvelt, Orange County Militia, New York. 177(5. 

1884. Bloodgood, Robert Fanshawe, 276 

Great-grandson of Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-Gen- 
eral Goose Van Schaick (1736-1789), Colonel 2d 
Regiment New York Militia, 1775 ; Colonel 5th Regi- 
ment New York Line, 1776 ; Colonel 1st Regiment 
New York Line, 1776 ; Bi'igatlier-General by brevet 
at close of war. 

1887. *Bolton, James Clinton (died March 28, 1891), 

Grandson of Brigadier and Brevet Major-General James 
Clinton (1736-1812), Colonel 3d Regiment New York 
Line, 1775; Brigadier-General Continental Army, 
1776; Major-General Continental Army, by brevet, 
1783. 

1891. Bott, Joseph Warner, 

Great -great-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Little ( 

1791), Captain Ezekiel Giles' Company, from Plais- 
tow, New Hampshire, September 28, 1777; joined the 
Northern Army at Saratoga, October, 1777. 



87 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Bowen, Clarence Winthrop, 266 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Matliew Bowen, Con- 
necticut Militia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Isaac Gardner, 
Massachusetts Militia. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Benjamin Tappan, 
Massachusetts Militia. 

Also, Great-grandson of Surgeon William Aspinwall, 
Massachusetts Militia. 



1884. Bowman, Joseph Joslyn, 476- 

Great-grandson of Major Joseph Bowman (1740 ), 

Ensign Captain Grainger's Company, Colonel Jona- 
than Ward's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 1775; 
2d Major 4th Regiment Worcester County Militia, 
Colonel Jonathan Walker, 1776; Major in Colonel 
Job Cushing's Regiment Massachusetts Bay Militia, 
served in Northern Department, 1777. 



1889. Bradish, G. Johnston, 377 

Great-grandson of Captain John Williamson, 1st Regi- 
ment South Carolina Continental Infantry. 



1890. Bradley, Cyrus Sherwood, 

Great-grandson of Private Levi Bradley (1758-1829), 
Fairfield Coast Guards, November 4, 1776 ; served in 
the Danbury Raid, April, 1777. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Ensign Seth Bradley 
(1735-1798), Ensign in Captain Eliphalet Thorp's- 
Company, 1st Battalion Connecticut State Troops, 
Colonel Samuel Whiting, 1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Daniel Sher- 
wood (1735-1819), in Captain Jonathan Dimon's Com- 
pany Connecticut Militia, May, 1775; Private in 
Fairfield Coast Guards, November 7, 1776 : Clerk in 
Captain George Burr's Company, Colonel Samuel 
Whiting's Regiment Connecticut Militia, October,. 
1777. 



88 

No. of 
Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private John Dimon 
(1730-1777), Connecticut Militia, taken prisoner in the 
Danbury Raid, taken to New York, and died there 
in the "Sugar House.*' 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Simon Couch (1729- 
1809), of Redding, Connecticut, authorized to raise 
recruits for the Continental Army, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Gei'shom Bulk- 
ley, Captain Jonathan Dimon's Company, Connecti- 
cut Militia, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private John Wakeman 

(1731 ), Private in Captain Jonathan Dimon's 

Company Connecticut Militia, 1776; Private in Fair- 
iield Coast Guards, October 28, 1776 ; Private in Cap- 
tain George Burr's Company, Colonel Samuel Whit- 
ing's Regiment Connecticut Militia, on duty at 
Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, October, 1777. 



1891. Bridge, Charles Francis, 

Great-grandson of Colonel Ebenezer Bridge (1742-1823), 
Colonel 27th Regiment Massachusetts Continental 
Infantry, April 30, 1775; 2d Major 8th Regiment 
Worcester County Militia, Colonel Abijah Stearns, 
February 6, 1776 ; Lieutenant in Colonel Asa Whit- 
comb's Massachusetts Regiment, June 3, 1775 ; Colo- 
nel Massachusetts Militia, August 1, 1775; Member 
of Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 1775. 

1892. Bridgham, Samuel Willard, 777 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Stephen Paine (1716 

), Lieutenant in 6th Company, Captain Loring 

Peck, 4th Regiment Rhode Island Continental In- 
fantry, Colonel Harry Babcock, January 18, 1776. 

1892. Bridgham, William Haliburton, 793 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Stephen Paine (1716 ), 

Lieutenant in 6th Company, Captain Loring Peck, 
4th Regiment Rhode Island Continental Infantry, 
Colonel Harry Babcock, January 18. 1 776. 



89 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Brightman, Henry Jackson, 138 

Great-grandson of Ensign John Yeomans, 4th Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Continental Infantry. 



1891. Brinsmade, William Barrett, 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Abraham Brinsmade 
(1726-1801), 9th Company, 4th Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Dimon, March 
21, 1777. 

1891. Brockway, Asahel Norton, 

Grandson of Reverend Thomas Brockway (1745-1807), 
Chaplain 4th Battalion Wadsworth's Brigade Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel Samuel Selden, July 15. 
1776. 

1889. Brokaw, Joseph, 

Grandson of Sergeant Bergum Brokaw, 1st Battalion 
Somerset County Militia, New Jersey. 

1891. Brooks, Reverend Arthur, D. D., 

Great-grandson of Samuel Phillips (1752-1802), Mem- 
ber of Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 1775-9; 
Constitutional Convention, 1779 ; Massachusetts Sen- 
ate, 1781-1801 ; Justice Massachusetts Court of Com- 
mon Pleas. 1781-98 ; Member of Andover Committee 
of Safety, 1775; Representative to Massachusetts 
General Court, 1775. 



1891. Brooks, Frederick Henry, 608 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Joel Hayes (1728- 
1800), Simsbury (Connecticut) Militia, "Lexington 
Alarm," 1775; Lieutenant 18th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Militia, August 22, 1776, served around New 
York; Lieutenant, Connecticut Militia, marched on 
" Bennington Alarm,'' 1777. 



90 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Broome, George Cochrane, 165 

Great grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel John Broome 
(1738-1810), Lieutenant-Colonel 2d Regiment New 
York City Militia, Colonel John Jay, October 6, 
1775; Chairman pro tern, of the New York Com- 
mittee of Safety, 1775; Member of New York Pro- 
vincial Congress, 1775-6; Member of Committee to 
superintend prisoners captured from the British, 1776. 

1889. Brown, Edward Flint, 

Great-grandson of Captain David Brown ( 1802), 

Massachusetts Militia, served at Lexington and Con- 
cord, April 19, 1775. 

1888. Browne, Henry Huffman, 

Great-great-grandson of Quartermaster William Rod- 
man, Pennsylvania Militia. 

1891. Bull, Charles Stedman, M. D., 593 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Caleb Bull (1746-1797), 
Colonel S. B. Webb's "additional" Regiment Conti- 
nental Infantry, Connecticut, January 1, 1777. 

1891. Bulloch, Joseph Gaston, M. D., 

Great-great-grandson of Governor Archibald Bulloch 
(1730-1777), President of Georgia Provincial Con- 
gress, 1775 ; Commander-in-Chief of Georgia Troops, 
1776 ; President of Georgia, 1775-7 ; Member of Con- 
tinental Congress, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Dr. Noble Wyinberly 
Jones (1732-1805), Speaker of Georgia Provincial 
Congress, 1775 ; Member of Continental Congress, 
1775, 1781-2. 

Also, Great-grandson of John Glen (1725-1799), Chair- 
man of Georgia Provincial Congress. 1775; Chief- 
Justice of Georgia, 1776 and 1778. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Robert Bolton 
(1757-1802), Georgia Militia. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of James de Veaux 

( 1785), Member of Georgia Provincial Congress, 

1775. 



91 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Bulloch, Eobert Hutchinson, 

Great-great-grandson of Governor Archibald Bulloch 
(1730-1777), President of Georgia Provincial Con- 
gress, 1775 ; Commander-in-Chief of Georgia Troops, 
1776 ; President of Georgia, 1775-7 ; Member of Con- 
tinental Congress, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Dr. Noble Wymberly 
Jones (1732-1805), Speaker of Georgia Provincial 
Congress, 1775; Member of Continental Congress, 
1775, 1781-2. 

Also, Great-grandson of John Glen (1725-1799), Chair- 
man of Georgia Provincial Congress, 1775 ; Chief- 
Justice of Geoagia, 1776 and 1778. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Robert Bolton 
(1757-1802), Georgia Militia. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of James de Veaux 

( 1785), Member of Georgia Provincial Congress, 

1775. 



1886. Bullus, Albert, 6& 

Great-grandson of Colonel Charles Rumsey (1736-1780), 
Member Maryland Convention, 1775 ; Member Mary- 
land Council of Safety, 1776 ; Colonel of ' ' Elk " 
Battalion Cecil County Militia, 1776; County Lieu- 
tenant Cecil County Militia, Maryland, 1777. 

1891. Burgess, Edward Guyre, 506 

Great-grandson of Ensign James Wands (1728-1824), 
5th Regiment Albany County Militia, New York, 
Colonel Henry Quackenbush, April 4, 1778. 



1891. Burgess, William Everett, 

Great-great-grandson of Private James Proctor (1722- 
1776), Private in Captain David Quimby's Company, 
Colonel Josiah Bartlett's Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteer Militia, raised to reinforce the Continental 
Army in Canada, July, 1776 ; wounded at Ticonder- 
oga, and died from wounds on his way home. 



92 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. BURLINGHAM, ALBERT STARR, 431 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Aaron Hale (1740-1829), 
Ensign in 9th Company, Captain Abraham Filer, 8th 
Regiment Connecticut Continental Infantry, Colonel 
Jedediah Huntington, July 6, 1775; 2d Lieutenant 
in same Regiment, reorganized as 17th Continental, 
1776; 1st Lieutenant in 1st Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Colonel Huntington, January 1, 1777; 1st Lieu- 
tenant in Captain Elisha Chapman's Company, Col- 
onel Samuel McClellan's Regiment Connecticut State 
Troops, 1778. 

1883. Burrall, Frederick Augustus, M. D. , 

Great-grandson of Colonel Charles Burrall, Colonel of 
Continental Regiment raised to serve in Northern 
Department under General Schuyler, 1776; Colonel 
14th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1775-7; Member 
Connecticut Assembly, 1775. 

1887. Butler, Charles, LL. D., 125 

Son of Private Medad Butler, Connecticut Militia. 

1890. Butler, Edward Demarest, 600 

Great-grandson of Captain Samuel Demarest, Bergen 
County Militia, New Jersey. 

1890. Butler, Elliot L., 

Great-grandson of Private Moses Butler, Continental 
Line, Massachusetts, January, 1777, to January, 1781. 

1890. Butler, George B., 342 

Great-grandson of Colonel Beriah Norton (1734-1821). 
Vineyard Regiment, Dukes County (Massachusetts) 
Militia, February 1, 1776. 

1889. Butler, George H., M. D., 

Great-grandson of Private Moses Butler, Continental 
Line, Massachusetts, January, 1777, to January, 1781. 



93 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Butler, Henry Percival, 341 

Great-grandson of Colonel Beriah Norton (1734-1821), 
Vineyard Regiment, Dukes County (Massachusetts) 
Militia, February 1, 1776. 



1889. Butterfield, Daniel, 375 

Grandson of Private Gamaliel Olmstead, of Captain 
Joseph Walker's Company, 3d Regiment Connecticut 
Continental Infantry, Colonel Webb, February 1, 
1778; honorably discharged February 1, 1781. 



1887. Byington, Aaron Homer, 

Great-grandson of Private John Byington, Private 9th 
Company, Captain Beardsley, 5th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Militia, Colonel Waterbury, May 1, 1775 ; Private 
Captain Abel's Company, Colonel Philip B. Bradley's 
Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, Connecticut State 
Troops, August 13, 1776. 



1887. Cadwalader, John Lambert, 

Grandson of Colonel Lambert Cadwalader (1742-1823), 
Lieutenant-Colonel 3d Pennsylvania Battalion, Jan- 
uary 4, 1776 ; Colonel 4th Regiment Pennsylvania 
Line, October 25, 1776 ; captured at Fort Washington, 
November 26, 1776 ; Member of Provincial Congress. 
1775. 



1888. Cannon, Henry White, 298 

Great-great-grandson of Private Joseph Enos Goodrich, 
Private in Captain William Rodgers's Company in 
Colonel Samuel Gerrish's Regiment Newbury (Mas- 
sachusetts) Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 



94 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1892. Capell, William Benton, 

Great-great-grandson of Private Abel Brown ( 

1823), Private in Captain Abisha Brown's Company, 
5th Regiment Continental Foot (Massachusetts), 
Colonel Nixon, September 30, 1775 ; Private in Cap- 
tain Nathan Rowles' Company, Colonel John Jacob's 
Regiment Massachusetts Line, February 27, 1778; 
Private in Captain Daniel Harrington's Company, 
Colonel Jonathan Reed's Regiment of Guards, April 
2, 1778. 



1891. Carleton, Charles A., 665 

Great-grandson of Private Moses Carleton (1712-1803), 
Private in Captain William Perley's Company of 
Minute Men from Boxford, Essex County, Colonel 
James Frye, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775. 
Also, Great-grandson of Captain Noadiah Leonard 
(1737-1790), Captain in 25th Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, Colonel Benjamin Ruggles Woodridge, Sep- 
tember 28, 1775. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Henry Hodge, Captain 
Scott's Company, Lincoln County (Massachusetts) 
Militia, Colonel Joseph North, September 10. 1777. 



1891. Carleton, George Washington, 

Great-grandson of Private Moses Carleton (1712-1803), 
Private in Captain William Perley's Company of 
Minute Men from Boxford, Essex County, Massa- 
chusetts, Colonel James Frye, "Lexington Alarm," 
April 19, 1775. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain Noadiah Leonard 
(1737-1790), Captain in 25th Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, Colonel Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge. 
September 28, 1775. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Henry Hodge. Captain 
Scott's Company Lincoln County (Massachusetts) 
Militia, Colonel Joseph North, September 10, 1777. 



95 

Elated. I ^? gn ° i f a 

1891. Carnes, Lewis Mortimer, 760 

Great-grandson of Reverend John Carnes (1723-1802), 
Chaplain to Colonel Edmund Phinney's Battalion 
Massachusetts Bay Forces, at Fort George, December 
8. 1776; Member of Massachusetts Provincial As- 
sembly. 

1889. Carpender, Charles J., 210 

Great-grandson of Brigadier - General John Neilson 
(1745-1833), Captain New Jersey Militia, 1775; Colo- 
nel 2d Regiment Middlesex Battalion Minute Men, 
August 31, 1776; Colonel of Regiment State Troops; 
Brigadier-General New Jersey Militia, February 21, 
1777; also Deputy Quartermaster-General. 

1888. Carpender, John Neilson, 27 

Great-grandson of Brigadier - General John Neilson 
(1745-1833), Captain New Jersey Militia, 1775; Colo- 
nel 2d Regiment Middlesex Battalion Minute Men, 
August 31, 1776 ; Colonel of Regiment State Troops ; 
Brigadier-General New Jersey Militia, February 21, 
1777; also Deputy Quartermaster-General. 

1888. Carpender, William, 28 

Great-grandson of Brigadier - General John Neilson 
(1745-1833), Captain New Jersey Militia, 1775; Colo- 
nel 2d Regiment Middlesex Battalion Minute Men, 
August 31, 1776 ; Colonel of Regiment State Troops ; 
Brigadier-General New Jersey Militia, February 21, 
1777: also Deputy Quartermaster-General. 

1889. Carpenter, Charles Whitney, 278 

Great-grandson of Private John (Jacobs) Mascraft (1756- 
1815), in Captain Amos Paine's Company, 11th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Ebenezer Williams, 
served arouud New York, 1776. 

1888. Carpenter, Reese, 694 

Great-grandson of Private Joseph Owen, Jr., 2d Regi- 
ment Westchester County Militia, New York. 1780-1. 



96 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1885. Caer, William Henry, 261 

Great-grandson of Corporal Edmund Pinnegar (1750- 
1782), Private Rhode Island Militia, 1776; Private 
Captain William Allen's Company, 2d Regiment 
Rhode Island Continental Infantry, 1777; promoted 
Corporal same Regiment, 1779 ; drowned from ship 
'•Tartar," Captain Cathcart, October, 1782. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain Caleb Carr, Colonel 
Cook's Regiment Rhode Island Militia, 1776. 

1886. Carroll, Edward, Jr., 367 

Great-great-grandson of Private Joseph Lawton, South 
Carolina Militia. 

1890. Case, George W., 496 

Great-grandson of Private Ozias Case (1757-1820), Lieu- 
tenant Job Case's Company, 18th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Militia, on service around New York, 1776. 

1887. Casey, Edward P., 

Great-grandson of Private Wanton Casey (1760-1842), 
Private East Greenwich (Rhode Island) Militia, " Lex- 
ington Alarm," 1775; served continuously with 
Rhode Island Militia until 1779, when he retired on 
account of ill health. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain and Brevet Ma- 
jor Nathan Goodale (1744-1793), Lieutenant in Colonel 
David Brewers Regiment Massachusetts Continental 
Infantry, 1775; 1st Lieutenant 13th Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Continental Infantry, Colonel Joseph Read, 
1776; 1st Lieutenant 25th Regiment Massachusetts 
Continental Infantry, Colonel William Bond, 1776; 
served around New York, 1776, in Engineers' De- 
partment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Rufus Putnam; 
Captain 5th Regiment Massachusetts Continental In- 
fantry, Colonel Rufus Putnam, 1777; "at Saratoga," 
1777; at West Point, Peekskill and White Plains, 
1778; taken prisoner near Tuckahoe, August 31, 
1778; exchanged 1781; brevetted Major at close of 



97 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Center, Robert A., 729 

Great-grandson of Captain Samuel Mansfield, 2d Corps 
Continental Artillery, Colonel Lamb, Connecticut. 

1891. Chapin, Reverend Henry Barton, 

Great-grandson of Colonel William Barton (1748-1831), 
Colonel Rhode Island Continental Infantry, Decem- 
ber 24, 1777 ; presented with a sword by the Conti- 
nental Congress in recognition of his services in 
capturing the British General Prescott, July 9, 1777. 

1889. Chapin, Henry Dwight, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Colonel William Barton (1748-1831), 
Colonel Rhode Island Continental Infantry, Decem- 
ber 24, 1777; presented with a sword by the Conti- 
nental Congi-ess in recognition of his services in 
capturing the British General Prescott, July 9, 1777. 

1888. Chauncey, Henry, Jr., 8ft 

Great-grand-nephew of Private John Chauncey, of the 
1st Troop, 2d Regiment, Continental Light Dragoons, 
Colonel Elisha Sheldon ; killed in a skirmish on the 
Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1777. 

1888. Cheesman, Timothy Matlack, M. D. (Life Member), 77 
Representative and great-grandnephew of Captain Jacob 
Cheesman, 1st Regiment New York Continental In- 
fantry, and Aide-de-Camp on staff of Major-General 
Richaixl Montgomery, killed in assault on Quebec, 
December 31, 1775. 

1887. Chrystie, John Albert, 

Great-grandson of Captain and Brevet Major James 
Chrystie (1750-1807), 1st Lieutenant 2d Battalion 
Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Arthur St. Clair, 1776; 
served with Arnold's Expedition to Canada, 1775-6; 
Captain 2d Battalion Pennsylvania Line, Colonel St. 
Clair, 1776; Captain 3d Regiment Pennsylvania Line, 
Colonel Joseph Wood, 1777; Captain 3d Regiment 
Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Thomas Craig, 1781 ; Cap- 
tain 2d Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Rich- 
ard Humpton, 1783 ; Major by brevet at close of war. 



98 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

Also, Great-grandson of Commodore James Nicholson 
(1737-1804), in command of Maryland ship-of-war 
••Defence," 1775; in command of Continental ship- 
of-war "Virginia," 1776 ; Commander-in-chief of Con- 
tinental Navy, 1777; in command of Continental 
frigate "Trumbull," 1780. 

1888. Chrystie, Thomas Mackaness Ludlow, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Captain and Brevet Major James 
Chrystie (1750-1807), 1st Lieutenant 2d Battalion 
Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Arthur St. Clair, 1770 ; 
served with Arnold's Expedition to Canada, 1775-6; 
Captain 2d Battalion Pennsylvania Line, Colonel St. 
Clair, 1776 ; Captain 3d Regiment Pennsylvania Line, 
Colonel Joseph Wood, 1777; Captain 3d Regiment 
Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Thomas Craig, 1781 ; Cap- 
tain 2d Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Rich- 
ard Humpton, 1783 ; Major by brevet at close of war. 
Also, Great-grandson of Commodore James Nicholson 
(1737-1804), in command of Maryland ship-of-war 
" Defence," 1775; in command of Continental ship- 
of-war "Virginia," 1776 ; Commander-in-chief of Con- 
tinental Navy, 1777; in command of Continental 
frigate "Trumbull," 1780. 

1886. *Chrystie, Thomas Witter (died January 18, 1888), 
Grandson of Captain and Brevet Major James Chrystie 
(1750-1807), 1st Lieutenant 2d Battalion Pennsylvania 
Line, Colonel Arthur St. Clair, 1776; served with 
Arnold's Expedition to Canada, 1775-6; Captain 2d 
Battalion Pennsylvania Line, Colonel St. Clair, 1776 ; 
Captain 3d Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel 
Joseph Wood, 1777; Captain 3d Regiment Pennsyl- 
vania Line, Colonel Thomas Craig, 1781; Captain 
2d Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Richard 
Humpton, 1783; Major by brevet at close of war. 
Also, Grandson of Commodore James Nicholson (1737- 
1804), in command of Maryland ship-of-war "De- 
fence," 1775; in command of Continental ship-of-war 
"Virginia," 1776; Commander-in-chief of Continen- 
tal Navy, 1777; in command of Continental frigate 
"Trumbull," 1780. 



99 

No. Of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1892. Church, Alonzo, 

Great-grandson of 1st Lieutenant Reuben Church 
(1757-1834), South Company, Captain Artemas How, 
1st Regiment Cumberland County New York (Ver- 
mont) Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel Timothy Church 
commanding, July 24, 1782. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Tim- 
othy Church, 1st Regiment Cumberland County.' 
(New York) Militia. 

Also, Great -great -grand son of Lieutenant-Colonel 
Joshua Porter (1730-1826), 14th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Militia, 1775 ; Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel In- 
crease Moseley's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1777,. 
at "Saratoga." 



1891. Church, Francis Pharcellas, 

Great-grandson of Adjutant Ebenezer Conant (1743- 
1783), Colonel Stearns Regiment Massachusetts Mili- 
tia, 1777; previously (1775) Lieutenant in Captain 
Davis' Company, Colonel Whitcomb's Regiment 
Massachusetts Continental Infantry. 



1891. Chutowski, Thaddeus Kosciusko, 

Great-great -grandnephew and Representative of Colonel 

(Count) Thaddeus Kosciusko (1736-1817), Engineer 

Corps Continental Army. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private William Fitch (1764- 

1843), Captain Ozias Merwin's Company, Colonel 

Stephen St. John's Regiment Connecticut Coast Guard 

Service. 1782. 



1891. Clark, Cyrus, 

Great-grandson of Private Lemuel Clark (1753-1831), 
Captain Daniel Tilden's Company Connecticut Militia, 
"Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775. 



100 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Clark, Hiram, 

Son of Ensign Watrous Clark, Private in Captain John 
Perkins's Company Norwich Militia, "Lexington 
Alarm," April, 1775; Sergeant-Major in 3d Regiment 
Connecticut Militia in Continental service, Colonel 
Israel Putnam, May 3, 1775, served at siege of Bos- 
ton; Ensign in 20th Regiment Continental Infantry, 
Colonel John Durkee, 1776. 

1886. Clarkson, Ashton Crosby, 

Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), 
Signer of Declaration of Independence, and Colonel of 
1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York, 1775. 

1889. Clarkson, Banyer, 187 

Great-grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 
Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825), Private in Colonel 
Ritzema's Corps of American Fusiliers, 1775; served 
with Northern Army, 1777-9; acting Aide-de-Camp 
to Arnold at Saratoga; appointed Aide-de-Camp to 
Major-General Lincoln in Southern Army, 1779, at 
Savannah; served as Major of Light Infantry, 1780; 
taken prisoner at Charleston ; exchanged in 1781 ; 
served as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Lincoln to 
-close of war; Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, 1783. 

1883. Clarkson, Floyd, 6 

Great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), Signer 
of Declaration of Independence, and Colonel 1st 
Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York, 1775. 

1890. Clarkson, Frederick, 355 

Grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 
Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825), Private in Colonel 
Ritzema's Corps of American Fusiliers, 1775 ; served 
with Northern Army, 1777-9; acting Aide-de-Camp 
to Arnold at Saratoga; appointed Aide-de-Camp to 
Majoi'-General Lincoln in Southern Army, 1779, at 
Savannah ; served as Major of Light Infantry, 1780 ; 
taken prisoner at Charleston; exchanged in 1781; 
served as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Lincoln to 
<dose of war; Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, 1783. 



101 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Clarkson, George Taylor, 

Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), 
Signer of Declaration of Independence, and Colonel 
1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York, 
1775. 

1885. Clarkson, John Van Boskerck, 69 

Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), 
Signer of Declaration of Independence, and Colonel 
1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York. 
1775. 

1887. Clearwater, Alphonso Trumpbour, 330 

Great-great-grandson of Private Abraham Klaarwater, 

Captain Philip Houghtaling's Company, Ulster 

County Troop of Horse. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Thomas Klaarwater, 

in Captain Cornelius E. Wynkoop's Company, Ulster 

County Militia. 

1890. Clinton, Alexander James, 311 

Great-grandson of Brigadier and Brevet Major-Gen- 
eral James Clinton (1736-1812), Colonel 3d Regiment 
New York Line, 1775 ; Brigadier-General Continental 
Army, 1776; Major-General Continental Army by 
brevet, 1783. 



1891. Clinton, Spencer, 499 

Great-grandson of Brigadier and Brevet Major-Gen- 
eral James Clinton (1736-1812), Colonel 3d Regiment 
New York Line, 1775; Brigadier-General Continental 
Army, 1776; Major-General Continental Army by 
brevet, 1783. 

1883. Cochrane, John, 

Grandson of Surgeon -General John Cochran (1730- 
1S07), Physician and Surgeon-General Middle De- 
partment Continental Army, April 10, 1777; Director- 
General Medical Hospitals Continental Army, 1781. 



102 



No. of 
Insignia. 



Also, Great-grandson of Colonel James Livingston 
(1747-1832), Colonel of "additional" Continental In- 
fantry, March 20, 1775, to 1781, on active service in 
Canada and on the Hudson ; Member of New York 
Provincial Congress, 1775-6; Chairman Dutchess 
County Committee of Safety. 



Coe, Charles A., 223 

Great-grandson of Major Godfrey Rinehart, 4th Regi- 
ment Militia, Hunterdon County, New Jersey ; also 
Member of New Jersey Assembly, 1779. 



1891. Cogswell, Cullen Van Rensselaer, 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Robert Van 
Rensselaer (1740-1802), Colonel 8th Regiment Albany 
County Militia, 1776 ; Brigadier-General 2d Brigade 
Albany County Militia, June 16, 1780; Member of 
New York Provincial Congress, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel James Bayard 
(1738-1806), Major of 2d Battalion Philadelphia Mili- 
tia, 1775 ; Colonel Philadelphia Militia, 1777 ; Colonel 
4th Battalion Philadelphia Militia, 1779. 



1890. Cole, William Madison, 444 

Great-grandson of Private James Secor (1745-1812), 
Private in Captain Francis Smith's Company New 
York Militia, Colonel Odell, September 26, 1776, on 
duty at Fort Montgomery ; Private in Colonel Alex- 
ander McCrokey's Regiment of Militia at Ramapo, 
November, 1776 ; served at Long Pond Wards, March, 
1777; Private in Captain Archer's Company, Colonel 
Gilbert Cooper's Regiment of Militia, February, 1779, 
to 1781, stationed on tbe Hudson River. 



103 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Colles, Christopher John, M. D., 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Oliver Spencer, 1st 
Major 1st Regiment Essex County (New Jersey) Mili- 
tia, February 23, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel same, 
November 28, 1776 ; Lieutenant-Colonel New Jersey 
State Troops, November 27, 1776 ; Colonel same, Feb- 
ruary 3, 1777; Colonel of " Spencer's " Regiment New 
Jersey Continental Infantry, January 15, 1777; served 
to close of war. 

Also, Great-grandson of Surgeon's Mate Ebenezer 
Blackley (1760-1812), Volunteer Assistant Surgeon, 
1776 ; Surgeon's Mate 10th Regiment North Carolina 
Continental Infantry, 1778. 

1889. Collins, Charles Lee (Lieutenaut U. S. A.), 123 

Great-grandson of Private Mathew Coffin, Private on 
vessel "Melisha," Captain John Hall (to Machias), 
August 14, 1777; Private in Captain John Hall's 
Company Lincoln County Militia, Colonel Foster, 
September 1, 1777, on duty at Machias. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Nathan 
Coffin, Sergeant in Captain Tobias Fernald's Com- 
pany, Colonel John Scammel's Regiment Massachu- 
setts Continental Infantry, May 3, 1775 ; 1st Lieuten- 
ant in York County Militia, January 1, 1776; 1st 
Lieutenant in Massachusetts Coast Guard Service, 
1777. 

1891. Collins, Holdrige Ozro, 664 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Walter Wooster ( 

1829), Sergeant in Captain Leavenworth's Company, 
6th Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel R. J. Meigs, 
March 2, 1777; wounded at Kingsbridge, New Yoi'k. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Major Johannes Decker, 
2d Major Goshen Regiment Orange County (New 
York) Militia, Colonel William Allison, February, 
1776. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Benjamin Cuddeback 

(1746 ), Private in Captain Abraham Cuddeback's 

Company Orange County Militia, Colonel William 
Allison, 1776. 



104 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia, 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Cuddeback, 
Associator, Orange County, New York, 1775. 

Also, Great-grandson of Anthony Van Etten, Sr., 
Associator, Orange County, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Johannus West- 
brook, Associator, Orange County, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-great-great-grandson of Private Har- 
manus Van Inwaigen, Captain Westfall's Company, 
Colonel Klock's Regiment Orange County Militia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Ira Beebe. Cap- 
tain 27th Regiment Connecticut Militia. 

1889. Conant, George Seymour, M. D., 

Great-great-grandson of Private George Conant (1723- 
1792), Private in Captain Jenkins's Company Massa- 
chusetts Militia, stationed at Dartmouth, 1776 ; Private 
in Captain Baker's Company, Colonel Freeman's Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Militia, 1777; later served as 
Private in Captain Minot's Company, Colonel Whit- 
ing's Regiment. 

1887. Constant, Samuel Victor, 23 

Great-grandson of Corporal Jedediah Tuttle (1753 — — ), 
Private in Captain Robert Dodge's Company, Colonel 
Isaac Smith's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 1776 ; 
Private in Colonel Aaron Willard's Regiment Mas- 
sachusetts Militia, on service at Ticonderoga. 1776; 
Private in Captain Dodge's Company Wenham Mil- 
itia, at Saratoga, 1777. 

1891. Coon, Charles Edward, 606 

Great-grandson of Major Gideon Brownson, Colonel 
Seth Warner's Regiment New Hampshire Continental 
Infantry, July 5, 1776 ; taken prisoner, 1779 ; exchanged 
and served to close of war. 

1891. Corbin, Henry Clark, Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting 

Adjutant-General United States Army. 688 

Great-grandson of Private John Corbin, Private in 3d 
Regiment Virginia Line, Colonel Wheaton. 



105 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Cotheal,. Alexander Isaac, 424 

Grandson of Private Isaac Cotheal (1743-1812), 4th Bat- 
talion, 2d Establishment New Jersey Line, wounded 
and taken prisoner at Woodbridge, New Jersey, April 
19, 1777 ; served thirteen months in New York prison ; 
honorably discharged May 1, 1778, on account of 
wounds. 

1889. Cothren, Nathaniel, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant William Cochran (1738- 
1778), Private in Captain John Grannis's Company 
Massachusetts Militia, stationed at Tarpaulin's Cove ; 
Corporal in same, January 4, 1776 ; Sergeant in same, 
June 1, 1776 ; 2d Lieutenant in Captain Elisha Nye's 
Company, stationed at Elizabeth Island, January 10, 
1777. 

1891. COURTENAY, WlLLIAM, 580 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Purviance, Jr. (1728- 
1788), Chairman of Maryland Committee of Safety, 
and Purchasing Agent Continental Congress for 
Maryland; Member of Maryland Provincial Con- 
gress, 1776. 

1891. COURTRIGHT, GEORGE ALBERT, 

Great-great-grandson of Private Edmond Wood (1721- 
1805), Private in Captain Nathaniel Wood's Company 
Middleborough (Massachusetts) Minute Men, ' ' Lex- 
ington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Private in Captain 
Joshua White's Company, Colonel Cushing's Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Militia, September 20, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Peter Wood (1749- 
1829), Private in Captain Nathaniel Wood's Company, 
Colonel Simon Cary's Regiment Massachusetts Mili- 
tia, April 1, 1776 ; Private in same Company, Colonel 
Sprout's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, " Dartmouth 
Alarm," 1778; Private in Captain John Porter's 
Company, Colonel Cyprian Horn's Regiment, Jacobs' 
Brigade, in Continental Service on Rhode Island, 
July 30, 1780. 



106 

No. of 
Insignia. 

1892. Cowles, Walter Smith, 

Grandson of Captain Ebenezer Smith (1746-1816), en- 
listed in Continental Army, May, 1775; Ensign in 
Captain Soule's Company, 6th Regiment Continental 
Foot (Massachusetts), Colonel Asa Whitcomb, 1776; 
Lieutenant in same, 1777; Captain in same, March 
20, 1779 ; served to close of war. 

1888. COYKENDALL, SAMUEL D., 144 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Abram Shepherd, Colonel 
William Allison's Regiment Militia, Orange County, 
New York, killed in battle of Minisink, on the Dela- 
ware, July 22, 1779. 

1890. Craft. Reverend Francis, 461 

Grandson of Private William Craft (1762-1829), 2d Regi- 
ment Westchester County Militia, Colonel Thomas 
Thomas, September 24, 1779. 

1887. Crane, Charles Nicoll, 318 

Great-grandson of Captain William Crane, 5th Regiment 
New Jersey Continental Infantry (Colonel Oliver 
Spencer), and Major New Jei'sey Militia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Stephen Crane, 
1st Regiment New Jersey Line, and Speaker New 
Jersey Assembly, 1776. 

1890. Cromwell, David. 439 

Great-grandson of John Cromwell (1727-1805), of West- 
chester County, New York, who acted as guide and 
teamster to the Continental Army during the war. 

1888. Crosby, Henry A., 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Ebenezer Crosby (1753- 
1788), Surgeon of Washington's Life Guards, Mas- 
sachusetts. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734- 
1821), Signer of Declaration of Independence, and 
Colonel 1st Regiment Militia, Suffolk County, New 
York, 1775. 



107 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Crosby. John Schuyler, 297 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Ebenezer Crosby (1753- 
1788), Surgeon of Washington's Life Guards, Mas- 
sachusetts. 

Also. Great-grandson of Surgeon Mathias Burnet 
Miller (1749-1792), Colonel David Sutherland's Regi- 
ment New York State Militia, and Member of New 
York Provincial Congress. 

Also, Great-grandson of Colonel Stephen J. Schuyler, 
6th Regiment Albany County Militia, New York. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734- 
1821), Signer of Declaration of Independence, and 
Colonel 1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New 
York, 1775. 



1886. Crosby, Livingston, 

Great-great-grandson of Philip Livingston (1716-1778), 

Signer of Declaration of Independence, New York. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734- 

1821), Signer of Declaration of Independence, and 

Colonel 1st Regiment Militia, Suffolk County, New 

York, 1775. 



1890. Crosby, Stephen Van Rensselaer, 

Great-great-grandson of Surgeon Ebenezer Crosby (1753- 
1788), Surgeon of Washington's Life Guards. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of William Floyd 
(1734-1821), Signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, and Colonel 1st Regiment Suffolk County 
Militia, New York, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Major - General 
Philip J. Schuyler (1733-1804), Major-General Conti- 
nental Army, 1775; resigned 1779; Delegate to Con- 
tinental Congress, 1775-7; Member New York Pro- 
vincial Congress, 1778-9 ; Member New York State 
Senate, 1781-4. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel Stephen J. 
Schuyler, 6th Regiment Albany County Militia, 
New York. 



108 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Surgeon Mathias Burnet 
Miller (1749-1792), Colonel David Sutherland's Regi- 
ment New York State Militia, and Member of Nevv 
York Provincial Congress. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Philip Livingston 
(1716-1778), Signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, New York. 

1884. Crosby, William B., 218 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Ebenezer Crosby (1753- 
1788), Surgeon Washington's Life Guards, Massa- 
chusetts. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734- 
1821), Signer of the Declaration of Independence, 
and Colonel 1st Regiment Militia, Suffolk County. 
New York, 1775. 

1890. Cumming, James Duncan, 

Grandson of Quartermaster-Sergeant William Cum- 
ming (1759-1849), entered the service under Lieuten- 
ant McAuley, Colonel Archibald Lyttle's Regiment 
North Carolina Militia, at " Valley Forge" ; promoted 
Quartermaster-Sergeant 1777-8 ; volunteered in Colo- 
nel Ramsey's Regiment North Carolina Militia, 1780 ; 
served in Caswell's Brigade at " Camden," August 
16, 1780 ; Quartermaster-Sergeant under Major Tatum ; 
captured by Tarleton's Dragoons, 1781; escaped 
shortly afterward and served to close of war. 

1890. Cumming, James Duncan, Jr., 

Great-grandson of Quartermaster-Sergeant William 
Cumming (1759-1849), entered the service under 
Lieutenant McAuley, Colonel Archibald Lyttle's 
Regiment North Carolina Militia, at " Valley Forge" ; 
promoted Quartermaster - Sergeant 1777-8; volun- 
teered in Colonel Ramsey's Regiment North Caro- 
lina Militia, 1780; served in Caswell's Brigade at 
"Camden," August 16, 1780: Quartermaster-Sergeant 
under Major Tatum ; captured by Tarleton's Dra- 
goons, 1781 ; escaped shortly afterward and served to- 
close of war. 



109 



1890. Currier, Charles Gilman, M. D. 



No. of 
Insignia. 



Great-grandson of Private Benjamin Currier (1740 ), 

Private in Captain Benjamin Dias's Company New 
Hampshire Continental Infantry, Colonel David Gil- 
man. 177(5; Private in Captain Joseph Derhurn's 
Company, Colonel Moses Nichols' Regiment New- 
Hampshire Volunteers, August 5, 1778; joined the 
Continental Army in Rhode Island, 1778. 



1887. Curtis, George E., 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Revere, 
Massachusetts Artillery, Continental Army. 



1891. Dana, Richard Starr, 555 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Josiah Keith, Lieuten- 
ant in Captain Macy Williams' Company of Massa- 
chusetts Minute Men. " Lexington Alarm." April 19, 
1775; Captain in Colonel John Daggett's Regiment 
Massachusetts Militia, December 8, 1776 ; Captain in 
same, in Expedition to Rhode Island, August 25, 1778 ; 
Captain in Colonel Isaac Dean's Regiment Massachu- 
setts Militia, in Expedition to Rhode Island. March 3, 
1778; Captain in same, in Expedition to Tiverton, 
Rhode Island, August 4. 1780. 



1890. Darling, Charles William, 

Great-grandson of Captain Robert Davis, Captain 
Boston Militia, 1776; 2d Lieutenant loth Regiment 
Massachusetts Continental Infantry, Colonel John 
Patterson, January, 1776; Captain 1st Regiment 
Massachusetts Continental Infantry, Colonel Vose, 
March 4, 1777. 



110 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1885. Darlington, John Lacey, 

Great-grandson of Brigadier-General John Lacey ( 

1814), Captain 2d Battalion Bucks County Associa- 
tors, Colonel John Beatty, 1775 ; Lieutenant-Colonel 
4th Battalion Bucks County Militia, Colonel William 
Roberts, in the service of the United States, 1776; 
Captain 4th Battalion Pennsylvania Line, Colonel 
Anthony Wayne, served on Canadian frontier, 1776 ; 
Brigadier-General Pennsylvania Militia, 1778; retired 
from service 1781; Member of Supreme Executive 
Council of Pennsylvania. 



1885. Darlington, William Lacey, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Brigadier-General John Lacey ( 

1814), Captain 2d Battalion Bucks County Associa- 
tors, Colonel John Beatty, 1775 ; Lieutenant-Colonel 
4th Battalion Bucks County Militia, Colonel William 
Roberts, in the service of the United States, 1776; 
Captain 4th Battalion Pennsylvania Line, Colonel 
Anthony Wayne, served on Canadian frontier, 1776; 
Brigadier-General Pennsylvania Militia, 1778; retired 
from service 1781; Member of Supreme Executive 
Council of Pennsylvania. 



1886. Davidson, George Trimble, 154 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Mathias Burnet Miller 
(1749-1792), Colonel David Sutherland's Regiment 
New York State Militia, and Member of New York 
Provincial Congress. 



1891. Davidson, Silvanus Miller, 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Matthias Burnet Miller 
(1749-1792), Colonel David Sutherland's Regiment 
New York State Militia, and Member of New York 
Provincial Congress. 



Ill 

No. Of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Davies, William Gilbert, 761 

Great-grandson of Sergeant John Foote (1742-1809), 
Sergeant in Captain Amos Wilcox's Company, Sims- 
bury (Connecticut) Militia, "Lexington Alarm," 
April, 19, 1775; Private in Captain Zacheus Case's 
Company, Colonel Noadiah Hooker's Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, May 12, 1777; Private in Cap- 
tain David Olmstead's Company, Colonel Roger 
Enos' Regiment Connecticut Militia, June, 1778. 



1889. Davis, Augustus Plummer, 259 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Jacob Davis (1742-1809), 
1st Lieutenant in Captain Moses Whiting's Company 
of Roxbury (Massachusetts) Minute Men, attached to 
Colonel John Greaton's Regiment, April 19, 1775; 
served at "Bunker Hill" and Dorchester Heights, 
1775; Major 5th Regiment Worcester County Militia, 
Colonel John Holman, February 6, 1776. 



Davis, Fellowes, 44 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Aaron Davis (1709 -1777) 
Captain of Roxbury Militia, 1775 ; later Colonel Massa- 
chusetts Militia; Member of Massachusetts Provincial 
Congress, 1774-7; Member of Massachusetts General 
Court, 1775-6. 
Also, Great-grandson of Major Moses Davis (1744-1823), 
Private in Captain Moses Whiting's Company, Colo- 
nel John Greaton's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
"Lexington Alai'm," April 19, 1775. 



18S9. Davis, Herbert Anthony, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Jacob Davis (1742- 
1809), 1st Lieutenant in Captain Moses Whiting's 
Company of Roxbury (Massachusetts) Minute Men, 
attached to Colonel John Greaton's Regiment, April 
19, 1775, served at "Bunker Hill" and Dorchester 
Heights, 1775 ; Major 5th Regiment Worcester County 
Militia, Colonel John Holman, February 6, 1776. 



112 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia 

1891. Davis, Joseph, 671 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Aaron Davis, Sr. (1709- 
1777), Captain of Roxbury Militia, 1775; later 
Colonel Massachusetts Militia; Member of Massa- 
chusetts Provincial Congress, 1774-7; Member of 
Massachusetts General Court, 1775-6. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major Moses Davis (1744-1823), 
Private in Captain Moses Whiting's Company, Col- 
onel John Greaton's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
"Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775. 



1889. Dayton, Charles W., 49 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Andrew Adams ( 

1797), Major Connecticut Militia, 1777; Lieutenant- 
Colonel, 1779; Colonel 17th Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, 1780; Delegate to Continental Congress, 
1777-80 (Speaker 1779-80) ; Member Connecticut 
Council of Safety. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Major John Canfield, 
Adjutant Sheldon's Dragoons, 1776; Brigade-Major 
in Brigadier-General Oliver Wolcott's Detachment at 
"Saratoga," 1777; Member of Continental Congress. 



1890. Dayton, Harold Child, 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Andrew Adams ( 

1797), Major Connecticut Militia, 1777; Lieutenant- 
Colonel. 1779; Colonel 17th Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, 1780 ; Delegate Continental Congress, 1777-80 
(Speaker 1779-80); Member Connecticut Council of 
Safety. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Major John Canfield, 
Adjutant Sheldon's Dragoons, 1776; Brigade-Major 
in Brigadier-General Oliver Wolcotfs Detachment at 
"Saratoga," 1777; Member of Continental Congress. 



113 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia 

1889. Dayton, William Adams, M. D., 242 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Andrew Adams ( 

1797), Major Connecticut Militia, 1777; Lieutenant- 
Colonel, 1779; Colonel 17th Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, 1780; Delegate Continental Congress, 1777-80 
(Speaker 1779-80) ; Member Connecticut Council of 
Safety. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Major John Canfield, 
Adjutant Sheldon's Dragoons, 1776; Brigade-Major 
in Brigadier-General Oliver Wolcott's Detachment at 
"Saratoga,' - 1777; Member of Continental Congress. 

1889. Dechert, Yellott Dashiell, 

Great-grandson of 1st Lieutenant Robert Porter (1768- 
1842), Cadet. Proctor's Pennsylvania Artillery, Jan- 
uary 9, 1779 ; 1st Lieutenant, July 2, 1781; 2d Lieu- 
tenant, under the arrangement of the Pennsylvania 
Artillery, January 1, 1783, Pennsylvania Line. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel Andrew Porter 
(1743-1813), Captain of Marines, June 19, 1776, serv- 
ing on frigate "Effingham"; Captain 2d Regiment 
Continental Corps of Ai'tillery, Colonel Lamb, Janu- 
ary 1, 1777 ; transferred January 1, 1781, to 4th 
Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery, Colonel 
Proctor; promoted Major, April 19, 1781; promoted 
Lieutenant-Colonel, December 24. 1782; promoted 
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant. January 1, 1783. 

1889. Degraw, Clarence Gilbert, 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Abraham Water- 
house, Lieutenant in 9th Company, Captain John 
Ely, 6th Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Par- 
sons, May 1, 1775; Captain 10th Regiment Continental, 
Colonel Parsons, 1776; Captain 1st Regiment Con- 
necticut Light Horse Militia, Major William Hart, 
May, 1776. 

1889. Delafield, Albert, 50 

Great-grandson of Joseph Hallett (1731-1799), Member 
of First, Second and Third Provincial Congresses, 
New York. 



114 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Delafield, Augustus Floyd, 146 

Great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), Signer 
of the Declaration of Independence, and Colonel 1st 
Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York, 1775. 

1885. Delafield, Clarence, 82 

Grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 
Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835), Captain, 1776, Major 
Sheldon's Light Dragoons; 1777, conducted "secret 
service " for the Commander-in-Chief ; captured Fort 
George, Long Island, November 21, 1780, and 
received special notice of Congress ; Lieutenant-Col- 
onel by brevet 1783. 
Also, Great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Col- 
onel 1st Regiment Suffolk County (New York) Mili- 
tia, 1775. 

1888. Delafield, Frederick Prime, 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph Hallett (1731-1799), 
Member of First, Second and Third Provincial Con- 
gresses, New York. 

1889. Delafield, Frederick Schuchardt, 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph Hallett (1731-1799), 
Member of First, Second and Third Provincial Con- 
gresses, New York. 

1889. Delafield, Henry Parish, 

Great-grandson of Joseph Hallett (1731-1799), Member 
of First, Second and Third Provincial Congresses, 
New York. 

1891. Delafield, Maturin Livingston, Jr., 576 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph Hallett, Member of 1st, 

2d and 3d New York Provincial Congresses. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Walter Livingston, Dep- 
uty Commissary-General, and Member of 1st Provin- 
cial Congress, New York. 



115 

No. of 
Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Robert R. Livingston 
(1746-1813), Member of Continental Congress, 1775-7; 
Member of 4tb New York Provincial Congress, and 
Chancellor State of New York, 1777-1801. 

Also, Great - great - great - grandson of Francis Lewis 
(1713-1803), New York, Signer of the Declaration of 
Independence. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel Morgan Lewis 
(1754-1844), Major 2d Regiment New York City Mili- 
tia, Colonel John Jay, October 27, 1775 ; later, Adju- 
tant-Genei-al on Staff of Major-General Gates. 



1889. Delafield, Richard, 68 

Great-grandson, of Joseph Hallett (1731-1799), Member 
of First, Second and Third Provincial Congresses, 
New York. 



1889. Delafield, Rufus, 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph Hallett (1731-1799), 
Member of First, Second and Third Provincial Con- 
gresses, New York. 



1885. Delafield, Tallmadge, 245 

Grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel 
Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835), Captain, 177(5, Major 
Sheldon's Light Dragoons; 1777, conducted "secret 
service" for the Commander-in-Chief; captured Fort 
George, Long Island, November 21, 1780, and received 
special notice of Congress; Lieutenant-Colonel by 
brevet, 1783. 

Also, Great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and 
Colonel 1st Regiment Suffolk County (New York) 
Militia, 1775. 



116 



No. of 

Insignia. 



1884. Delavan, Charles H., 

Son of Captain Daniel Delavan, Captain, Lieutenant- 
Colonel Albert Pawling's Regiment Westchester 
County Levies, 1775 ; Ensign same, 1776 ; Lieutenant 
in Colonel Morris Graham's Regiment Militia, 1778-9 ; 
Captain in Colonel William Malcolm's Regiment 
"Additional Continental," 1780; detached to 2d New 
York Line until close of war. 



1884. Delavan, Christian S., 

Son of Captain Daniel Delavan, Captain, Lieutenant- 
Colonel Albert Pawling's Regiment Westchester 
County Levies, 1775 ; Ensign same, 1776 ; Lieutenant 
in Colonel Morris Graham's Regiment Militia, 1778-9 ; 
Captain in Colonel William Malcolms Regiment 
"Additional Continental," 1780; detached to 2d New 
York Line until close of war. 



1890. Derby, Richard Henry, M. £>., 462: 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Derby (1712-S3), Mem- 
ber of Governor's Council of Massachusetts, 1774-7. 
and Delegate to Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 
1774-5 ; Chairman of Boston Committee of Safety, 
1774. 



1892. Deshler, James, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Azariah Dun- 
ham (1719-1791), Muster-master of 1st, 2d and 3d 
Battalions New Jersey Militia, 1775-7; Lieutenant- 
Colonel 2d Middlesex (New Jersey) Battalion Militia. 
1775-6 ; Chairman of Middlesex (New Jersey) Con- 
vention, 1775; Member of New Jersey Provincial 
Congress, 1775-6 ; Member of New Jersey Committee 
of Safety, 1775-6; Superintendent of Purchases of 
New Jersey, 1777-83. 



117 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. deWint, John Peter Heyliger, 518 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel William Stephen 
Smith (1755-1816), appointed Aide-de-Camp to Major- 
General Sullivan, with rank of Major, August, 1776; 
Lieutenant-Colonel of Massachusetts "Additional 
Continental" Infantry, January 1, 1777; Inspector 
and Adjutant-General to the Continental Corps of 
Light Infantry under Major-General the Marquis De 
Lafayette, 1779 ; appoined Aide-de-Camp to the Com- 
mander-in-chief, July, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of John Adams, Signer of 
the Declaration of Independence. 



1886. * Dickerson, Edward Xicoll (died December 12, 1889), 

Grandson of Captain John Stotesbury, 1st Lieutenant 
11th Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Richard 
Humpton, 1776; 1st Lieutenant 8th Regiment 
Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Mackey; wounded and 
captured at " Brandy wine " ; prisoner in New York, 
exchanged, 1780; Ensign 2d Regiment Pennsylvania 
Line, Colonel Walter Stewart, 1781 ; Captain 6th Regi- 
ment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Robert Magaw. 
1781 ; served to close of war. 

Also, Great-grandson of Deputy Quartermaster-General 
Hugh Hughes, Continental Army, New York. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain Peter Dickerson, 3d 
Battalion, 2d Establishment, New Jersey Line. 



1886. Dickerson, Edward Nicoll, 

Great-grandson of Captain John Stotesbury, 1st Lieu- 
tenant 11th Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel 
Richard Humpton, 1776; 1st Lieutenant 8th Regi- 
ment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Mackey ; wounded 
and captured at " Brandy wine " ; prisoner in New 
York, exchanged, 1780; Ensign 2d Regiment Penn- 
sylvania Line, Colonel Walter Stewart, 1781 ; Captain 
6th Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Robert 
Magaw, 1781 ; served to close of war. 



118 

No. of 
ffflected. Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Deputy Quartermaster- 
General Hugh Hughes, Continental Army, New 
York. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Peter Dickerson, 
3d Battalion, 2d Establishment, New Jersey Line. 

188G. DlEFENDORF, MENZO, 

Great-grandson of Captain Henry Diefendorf ( 1777), 

1st Lieutenant, 1st Company, 3d Regiment New 
York Line, Colonel Gansevoort, 1776; 1st Lieu- 
tenant, 1st Company, New York Line, Colonel Van 
Schaick, 1777; Captain 1st Battalion Tyron County 
Militia, Colonel Nicholas Herkimer; killed in action 
at Oriskany, August 6, 1777. 

1892. Dike, Camden Crosby, 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Thomas Dike (1744-1805), 
Captain John Green's Company, Killingly (Connect- 
icut) Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; 
Sergeant in Captain John Green's Company, 11th 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, at New York, 1776. 

1891. Dike, Norman Staunton, 

Great-great-grandson of Elias Thomas (1746-1820), served 
as Scout under command of Lieutenant Nathan How- 
land, Vermont Militia, August, 1780; again under 
Lieutenant Abisha Samson, Vermont Militia, October, 
1780; again under Captain Jesse Safford, Vermont 
Militia, August 10, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Thomas Dike 
(1744-1805), Captain John Green's Company Killin- 
gly (Connecticut) Militia, "Lexington Alarm," 
April 19, 1775 ; Sergeant in Captain John Green's 
•Company 11th Regiment Connecticut Militia at New 
York, 1776. 

1889. Ditmars, Edward Wilson, 

Great-grandson of 1st Lieutenant Samuel Riker 
(1743-1823), Captain Daniel Lawrence's Troop of Light 
Horse, Queens County Militia, New York, and Mem- 
ber Queens County Committee of Safety, 1776. 



119 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Dix, Eeverend Morgan, D. D., D. C. L., 705 

Grandson of Lieutenant Timothy Dix (1743-1824), 2d 
Lieutenant in 11th Regiment New Hampshire Militia, 
Colonel Thomas Stickney, March 5, 1776; marched to 
reinforce the Northern Army under Major-General 
John Sullivan at Crown Point ; served thereafter at 
Fort Ticonderoga ; honorably discharged December 1, 
1776. 

1890. Dominick, Alexander, 549 s 

Great-grandson of Captain George Dominick ( 1730 ), 

14th Beat Company New York City Militia, Colonel 
John Jay, August 29, 1775. 

1890. Dominick, Bayard, 533 

Great-grandson of Captain George Dominick | 1730 ), 

14th Beat Company, New York City Militia, Colonel 
John Jay, August 29, 1775. 

1891. Dominick, George Francis, 592 

Great-grandson of Captain George Dominick (1730 ), 

14th Beat Company, 2d Regiment New York City 
Militia, Colonel John Jay, August 29, 1775. 

1890. Dominick, Henry Blanchard, 55a 

Great-grandson of Captain George Dominick ( 1730 ), 

14th Beat Company New York City Militia. Colonel 
John Jay, August 29, 1775. 

1884. Dominick, Marinus Willett, 26$ 

Grandson of Captain Daniel Delavan, Captain in Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Albert Pawling's Regiment West- 
chester County Levies, 1775 ; Ensign in same regiment, 
1776; Lieutenant in Colonel Morris Graham's Regi- 
ment Militia, 1778-9; Captain in Colonel William 
Malcolm's Regiment "Additional Continental," 1780; 
detached to 2d Regiment New York Line until close 
of the war. 
Also, Great-grandson of Captain Geoige Dominick 

(1730 ), 14th Beat Company, 2d Regiment New 

York City Militia, Colonel John Jay, August 29, 1775 



120 

_ No. of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Dominick, William Gayer (Life Member), 122 

Great-grandson of Captain George Dominick (1730 ), 

14th Beat Company, 2d Regiment New York City 
Militia, Colonel John Jay, August 29, 1775. 

1890. DOUBLEDAY, EDWIN THOMPSON, M. D., 410 

Great-grandson of Private Nehemiah Wyman (1762- 
1820), Captain Joshua Walkers Company, Colonel 
David Greene, 2d Regiment Foot, Middlesex County 
Militia, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Edward Stearns 
(1726-1793), Captain John Moore's Company, Bedford 
Militia, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Timothy Thompson 
(1750-1834), Captain Wheelock's Company, Massa- 
chusetts Militia, December 8, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private William Calder 
(1735-1802), Captain Jonathan Allen's Company, 
Minute Men, "Pomeroy's" Regiment, April 19, 1775. 

1887. Doudge, James R. (Life Member), 200 

Great-grandson of Lion Gardiner, Associator, 1775, 
Suffolk County, New York. 

1889. Douglas, Harry, 150 

Great-grandson of Captain Richard Douglas, Private in 
Captain Coit's Company of Volunteers from New 
London, Connecticut, Lexington Alarm, April 19, 
17?."i. at "Bunker Hill"; Ensign, 3d Company, 4th 
Battalion (Wadsworth's Brigade) Connecticut Militia, 
Colonel Selden, June 20, 1776; 2d Lieutenant, January 
1, 1777; 1st Lieutenant, January 1, 1778; Captain- 
Lieutenant, August 11, 1780; Captain, August 27, 
1780, in 1st Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel 
Huntington; Captain 5th Regiment Connecticut Line, 
Colonel Isaac Sherman, January 1, 1781 ; Captain in 
Major J. P. Wylly's Regiment Light Infantry, Febru- 
ary to November, 1781; served in Southern Army 
under Lafayette; Captain 3d Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Colonel S. B. Webb, January, 1783; Captain 
in Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment, "final forma- 
tion," June. 1783. 



121 



No, of 
Insignia. 



1889. Douw, Charles Gibbons, 

Great-grandson of Adjutant Volckert P. Douw, Lan- 
sing's Albany County Militia, New York, and Vice- 
President First Provincial Congress. 



1889. Douw, John de Peyster, 

Son of Ensign John De Peyster Douw, 4th Regiment 
Albany County Militia, New York, April 1, 1778. 

Also, Grandson of Volckert P. Douw, Vice-President 
of First Provincial Congress and Adjutant of Lan- 
sing's Albany County Militia, New York. 



1891. Dowd, Frank Curtis, 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel William Douglass 
(1712-1777), Captain 6th Company, 1st Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, Colonel David Wooster, May 1, 
1775 ; appointed Aide-de-Camp to General Wooster, 
June 13, 1775; Major in Colonel Andrew Ward's 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1776 ; Colonel 5th 
Battalion Wadsworth's Brigade Connecticut Militia, 
June 20, 1776; Colonel 6th Regiment Connecticut 
Line, January 1, 1777; died from effects of service, 
May 28, 1777 ; Member of Connecticut Assembly, 1776. 

1887. Downing, Silas, 222 

Grandson of Lieutenant Benjamin Allen, 2d Lieutenant 
in Captain Philip Bartell's Company, 9th Regiment 
2d Claverack Battalion Militia, Colonel Peter Van 
Ness. 1778; 1st Lieutenant same regiment, 1779. 

1891. Draper, T. Waln-Morgan, 695 

Grandson of Private Simeon Draper (1765-1818), Private 
in Captain Bemis' Company, Colonel Washburn's 
Regiment Worcester County (Massachusetts) Militia, 
January 12, 1781; Private in Captain Libbeus Drew's 
Company, 4th Regiment Massachusetts Continental 
Infantry, Colonel William Shepard, June, 1781. 



122 

No. of 
Insignia 

Also, Great - grandson of Private Joshua Draper 
(1724-1792), Captain Ebenezer Mason's Company. 
Colonel Jonathan Warren's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, April 19, 1775, ' ' Lexington Alarm ; " Private 
in Captain Benjamin Richardson's Company Colonel 
Nicholas Dike's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
September 4, 1776 ; Private in Captain Josiah White's 
Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Flagg's 
Regiment Worcester County Militia. " Hadley 
Alarm," August 21, 1777 ; Member of Worcester 
County Committee of Correspondence, 1776-7. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Benjamin Bemis 

(1744 ), Private in Captain Joseph Wolcott's 

Company of "Rangers" from Spencer, Massa- 
chusetts, "Lexington Alarm;" Sergeant in Captain 
Joel Green's Company Colonel Frye's Regiment 
Massachusetts Militia, 1775; later, Lieutenant in 8th 
Compauy Worcester County Militia and Member of 
Spencer (Massachusetts) Committee of Correspond- 
ence 1780. 



1883. *Drexel, Joseph W. (died March 25, 1888), 

Grandson of Private Nicholas Hookey of Colonel James 
Chambers' 1st Regiment Pennsylvania Continental 
Infantry. 



1890. Driggs, Elliott Foot, 404 

Great-grandson of Ensign Sylvanus Marshall (1746- 
1833), 2d Lieutenant in Captain Jesse Bell's Company, 
1st Battalion Connecticut State Troops, Colonel 
Whiting, 1776; Ensign in Captain Abraham Mead's 
Company, 9th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel John Mead, Atigust 13. 1776; Lieu- 
tenant in Captain Sylvanus Mead's Company of 
Rangers, 1777; Captain of Rangers, 1781. 

Also, Great-grandson of Surgeon Isaac Smith, Con- 
necticut Militia. 



123 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Drowne, Henry Russell (Life Member), 538 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Solomon Drowne, M. D., 
2d Regiment Infantry, Rhode Island State Brigade 
in Continental Service. 
Also, Great-grandson of Captain Robert Rhodes (1742- 
1821), Captain of "Alarm" Company, Warwick 
(Rhode Island) Militia, 1779 ; Captain of Senior Class 
Artillery Company, 1st Battalion, Kent County, 
Rhode Island, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Tilling- 
hast commanding, 1781-1. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of James Rhodes, Deputy 
to the Rhode Island General Azsembly, 1760-77; in 
command of Militia ordered to New Shoreham, Rhode 
Island. August, 1775. 



1876. Drowne, Henry Thayer, 72 

Grandson of Surgeon Solomon Drowne, M. D., 2d 
Regiment Infantry, Rhode Island State Brigade in 
Continental Service. 
Also, Great-grandson of Captain Robert Rhodes (1742- 
1821), Captain of "Alarm" Company, Warwick 
(Rhode Island) Militia, 1779; Captain of Senior Class 
Ai'tillery Company, 1st Battalion, Kent County, 
Rhode Island, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Tilling- 
hast commanding, 1781-4. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of James Rhodes, Deputy 
to the Rhode Island General Assembly, 1760-77; in 
command of Militia ordered to New Shoreham, Rhode 
Island, August, 1775. 

1891. Drowne, Rev. Thomas Stafford, D. D., 

Grandson of Surgeon Solomon Drowne, M. D., 2d Regi- 
ment Infantry, Rhode Island State Brigade in Con- 
tinental Service. 



1891. Drowne, Thomas Stafford, Jr., 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Solomon Drowne, M. D., 
2d Regiment Infantry, Rhode Island State Brigade 
in Continental Service. 



124 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. du Bois, William Maison, 206 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Louis Jonathan du Bois 
(1733 ), 3d Regiment Ulster County Militia, Col- 
onel Levi Pawling. 



1890. Diter, William Alexander, 

Great-grandson of Brigade-Major and Deputy-Adju- 
tant-General William Duer (1747-1799) ; appointed 
Brigade-Major and Deputy-Adjutant- General New 
York Militia, July 27, 1775; Member of New York 
Provincial Congress. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major Rufus King (1755-1827). 
Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sullivan, New York. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Major-General William 
Alexander, Lord Stirling (1726-1783) ; Colonel 1st Bat- 
talion, 1st Establishment, New Jersey Line, November 
7, 1775; Brigadier-General Continental Army, March 
11, 1776 ; Major-General Continental Army, February 
19, 1777 ; taken prisoner at battle of Long Island ; twice 
received the thanks of Congress for conspicuous service. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of John Alsop, member of 
Continental Congress from New York, 1775. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant William Denning 
(1740-1819), 2d Lieutenant 15th Beat Company, Cap- 
tain Henry Remsen, New York "Independents/' 
1775; Member of New York Provincial Congress, 
1776. 



1884. Edsall, Thomas Henry, 244 

Great-grandson of Captain Jacobus Edsall (1724-1800), 
2d Regiment Sussex County Militia, New Jersey. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Benjamin Coe 
(1741-1821), 1st Lieutenant Captain Abraham Remsen's 
Company, South Beach Militia, Queen's County, Long 
Island, March, 1776; promoted Captain, June, 1776; 
Captain in Colonel Josiah Smith's Regiment, Wood- 
hull's Brigade, July, 1776. 



125 

No. of 
Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Thomas Jones 
(1756-1841), Captain Jonathan Barnes' Company, 
Colonel Jonathan Walker's Regiment of Brookfield 
(Massachusetts) Minute Men; marched to Boston on 
Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775; Sergeant Captain 
Peter Harwood's Company, Colonel Ebenezer 
Learned's Regiment Massachussets Militia, April 27, 
1775 ; served at Bunker Hill, Dorchester, etc. ; later 
in Continental service. 

Also, Great-grandson of Sergeant James Burt (1760- 
1852), Private Orange County (New York) Militia, 
1776; afterwards Sergeant in Captain John Min- 
thorne's Company, Orange County Militia, Colonel 
John Hathorn ; served at Minisink, etc. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant John Dunning, 2d 
Lieutenant in Captain Isaiah Veal's Company, 2d 
Regiment Ulster County (New York) Militia, Colonel 
James Clinton; promoted 1st Lieutenant of same, 
1778. 



1888. Elsworth, Edward, 104 

Great-great-grandson of Private Benjamin Westervelt, 

2d New York Militia. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Benjamin Westervelt, 

Jr., 2d New York Militia. 



1891. Ely, Smith. 677 

Grandson of Private Moses Ely (1756-1838), Private 

Morris County (New Jersey) Militia. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Aaron Kitchell (1744- 
1820), Private Morris County (New Jersey) Militia. 

1887. Emerson, John W., 253 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Emerson, Essex 

County Militia, Massachusetts; Lexington Alarm. 

1775. 
Also, Great-grandson of Sergeant Samuel Bradstreet, 

Essex County Militia, Massachusetts; Lexington 

Alarm, 1775. 



126 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Emery, Livingston (Life Member), 316 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel William S. 
Livingston (1754-1817), Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel 
S. B. Webb's Regiment "Additional Continental," 
January 1, 1777; wounded and taken prisoner on 
Long Island, October 12, 1777: later Secretary and 
Aide-de-Camp to his father, Governor Livingston of 
New Jersey. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Governor and Brigadier- 
General William Livingston (1723-1790), Brigadier- 
General New Jersey Militia, October 28, 1775 ; Gov- 
ernor of New Jersey, 1776-90 ; also Member of Conti- 
nental Congress. 



1891. Enos, Frank, 701 

Great-great-grandson of Private Samuel Trask (1720- 
1790), Private in Captain John Hall's Company, Col- 
onel Palmer's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, March 
4, 1776; Private in Captain Andrew Elliott's Com- 
pany, Colonel Jonathan Holman's Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Militia, December 10, 1776 ; later, Private in 
Captain Miles Greenwood's Company Massachusetts 
Militia, Colonel Jacob Gerrish. 



1889. Erving, John Langdon, 

Great-great-grandson of John Langdon (1739-1819), 
Member Continental Congress, 1775-6 and 1783; in 
command of company of volunteers at Bennington. 
Saratoga and Rhode Island ; Speaker of New Hamp- 
shire Assembly ; Judge of Court of Common Pleas, 
1776-7; Continental Agent in New Hampshire, 1779. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Philip Livingston 
(1716-1778), Signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, New York. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Paterson, Dele- 
gate and Secretary First Provincial Congress, New 
Jersey; Member Continental Congress and of the 
Convention for Adoption of Constitution, and Attor- 
ney-General of New Jersey, 1776-86. 



127 

Elected. Ia *yl 

1889. Estey, Julius J., 18 

Great-grandson of Private Joshua Kendall, Framing- 
ham Militia, Massachusetts. 



1885. Evans, Thomas Grier, 

Great-grandson of Major Thomas DeWitt, 1st Lieu- 
tenant 3d Regiment New York Line, Colonel James 
Clinton, 1775; Captain 2d Company, 3d Battalion 
New York Line, Colonel Gansevoort, 1779; resigned 
January 7, 1780; Major in Lieutenant-Colonel Alhert 
Pawling's Regiment New York Levies, 1780; Major 
in Lieutenant-Colonel Marinus Willett's Regiment 
New York Levies, 1782. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Ja- 
cobus Swartwout (1734-1824), appointed by Provin- 
cial Congress Muster-Master New York Troops, 1775 ; 
Colonel 1st Regiment Dutchess County Militia, 1776 ; 
Colonel Charlotte County (New York) Militia, 1778; 
Brigadier-General Dutchess County Militia, 1780. 

Also, Great-grandson of Colonel John Seward (1730- 
), Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Sus- 
sex County Militia, New Jersey. 



1887. Fairchild, Benjamin T., 

Great-grandson of Private John Curtis Fairchild, 2d 
Company, Captain Samuel Whiting, 5th Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel David Waterbury, 1775. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Elwood, 
Private in Captain David Dimon's Company of 
Minute Men that marched frorn Fairfield to the relief 
of Boston, on Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775; 
Private in Captain Dimon's Company, 5th Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel David Waterbury, May 
10. 1775; Lieutenant of Marines on frigate "Alliance," 
32 guns, Captain Peter Landais, afterwards Captain 
Barry, August 24, 1778; retired from service. May 1, 
1783. 



128 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1887. Fairchild, Samuel W., 137 

Great-grandson of Private John Curtis Fairchild, 2d 
Company, Captain Samuel Whiting, 5th Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel David Waterbury, 1775. 
Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Elwood, 
Private in Captain David Dimon's Company of Min- 
ute Men, that marched from Fairfield to the relief of 
Boston on Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775; Private 
in Captain Dimon's Company, 5th Regiment Connect- 
icut Line, Colonel David Waterbury, May 10, 1775; 
Lieutenant of Marines on frigate " Alliance," 32 guns, 
Captatn Peter Landais, afterwards Captain Barry, 
August 24, 1778 ; retired from service May 1, 1783. 



1887. Fairchild, Thomas B., 

Grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Elwood, Private in 
Captain David Dimon's Company of Minute Men, 
that marched from Fairfield to the relief of Boston 
on Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775 ; Private in Cap- 
tain Dimon's Company, 5th Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Colonel David Waterbury, May 10, 1775: Lieu- 
tenant of Marines on frigate "Alliance," 32 guns, 
Captain Peter Landais, afterwards Captain Barry, 
August 24, 1778; retired from service May 1, 1783. 



1886. Farley, Gustavus, Jr., 148 

Great-grandson of Major-General Michael Farley (1719- 
1789), Quartermaster Massachusetts Militia, Colonel 
Gerrish, 1775 ; 2d Lieutenant and Quartermaster 26th 
Regiment Massachusetts Continental Infantry, Col- 
onel Laomi Baldwin, 1776; Brigadier-General Essex 
County Militia, 1776 ; 3d Major-General Massachusetts 
Militia, 1777; 2d Major-General same, 1778; Member 
Massachusetts Bay Committee, 1775; Member Mas- 
sachusetts Provincial Congress, 1775-80. 
Also, Grandson of Private Robert Farley, Captain Asa 
Prince's Company, Colonel Danforth Keyes' Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Militia; captured and confined 
11 months in prison ship "Jersey." 



129 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Farnam, Elbert Eli, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Charles Dix (1730-1810), 
Colonel Samuel Canfield's Regiment Connecticut 
Militia; served at West Point, 1781. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private John Foreman (1739- 
1792), Captain Timothy Barrow's Company, Colonel 
Timothy Bedel's Regiment New Hampshire Militia, 
raised for defence of the frontiers, April 16, 1778. 

1888. Farrand, Oliver M., 

Great-grandson of Private Bethuel Farrand, Morris 
County Militia, New Jersey. 

1886. Feeter, Jacob W., 

Grandson of Private William Feeter, Tryon County 
Militia, New York. 

1888. Ferris, Morris Patterson, 255 

Great-grandson of Private Cornelius Van Wyck, 5th 

Regiment Dutchess County Militia, Colonel James 

Vanderburgh, New York. 
Also, Great-grandson of Gregarius Storm, Associator, 

Dutchess County, New York. 

1891. *Ferry, Jedediah Baldwin (died July 28, 1891), 

Great-grandson of Corporal Solomon Ferry (1741- 
1810), Captain Jonathan Wales' Company Hamp- 
shire County (Massachusetts) Militia, Colonel Dick- 
inson, September 22, 1777; previously (August 17. 
1777) Corporal in same. 

1888. *Fincke, Charles Louis (died November 11, 1890), 

Great-grandson of Captain Andrew Fincke ( 1820), 

1st New York Line (Colonel Van Schaick), and 
Major and Inspector of Bounty Regiments, New York. 

1892. Findley, William Luther, 779' 

Great-grandson of Deputy Quartermaster-General Wil- 
liam Amberson (1752-1835), 1st Lieutenant in 8th 
Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Eneas Mackey, 
1776-9; Deputy Quartermaster-General, 1779. 



130 

No, of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. f Finney, Robert Spencer, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Lazarus Finney (1751- 
1833), 2d Lieutenant in 4th Company, 2d Battalion 
Chester County (Pennsylvania) Associators, Colonel 
Evan Evans, May 5, 1777; 1st Lieutenant in same, 
1778. 

1891. Fitch, Benjamin, 578 

Great-grandson of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (1752- 
1831), Paymaster, with rank of Major, North Carolina 
Line, August, 1775 ; Paymaster 7th Regiment North 
Carolina Militia, 1776 ; Lieutenant-Colonel Orange 
County (North Carolina) Militia, April 22, 1776 ; pro- 
moted Colonel of same, 1777; Deputy Commissary- 
General of military and other stores in North Caro- 
lina, May 10, 1776 ; Member of Orange County (North 
Carolina) Committee of Safety, 1775 ; Member of 
North Carolina Provincial Congress, 1776. 

1889. Fitch, Francis Emory, 142 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant William Wordin (1728- 
1808), Lieutenant in Captain Sterling's Company, 4th 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel 
Jonathan Dimon, October 5, 1777; Private in 2d 
Regiment, Continental Corps of Artillery, Colonel 
Lamb, 1780. 
Also, Great-grandson of Reverend Thomas Brock way 
(1745-1807), Chaplain 4th Battalion Wadsworth's Bri- 
gade Connecticut Militia, Colonel Samuel Seldou, 
July 15, 1776. 

1885. *Fitch, John (died September 1, 1889), 

Great-grandson of Captain and Brevet Major Andrew 
Fitch, Clerk of Captain Clark's Company, Connecti- 
cut Militia, Lexington Alarm, 1775; Lieutenant 6th 
Company, 3d Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel 
Putnam, 1775 ; Lieutenant in Colonel Ward's Regi- 
ment Connecticut Line, 1776 ; Captain 4th Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel John Durkee (1777-81) ; 
retired by consolidation with brevet of Major. 



131 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia, 

1885. Floyd, Augustus, 

Great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), Signer 
of the Declaration of Independence, and Colonel 1st 
Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York, 1775. 

1886. Floyd, John G., 551 

Great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), Signer 
of the Declaration of Independence, and Colonel 1st 
Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York, 1775. 

1888. Floyd, Nicoll, Jr., 

Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821),. 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Col- 
onel 1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York, 
1775. 

1889. Floyd- Jones, De Lancey, Colonel U. S. A., retired 

(Life Member), 160 

Great-grandson of Hendrick Onderdonck, Member of 
Committee of Safety, Queens County, New York. 

1885. Floyd- Jones, George Stanton, 149 

Great-great-grandson of Hendrick Onderdonck, Member 
of Committee of Safety, Queens County, New York. 

1890. Foote, George Benton, 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Cornelius Van Wyck,. 
5th Regiment Dutchess County Militia, Colonel 
Abraham Brinckerhoff, killed at White Plains, Octo- 
ber 31, 1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Aaron Hall 
(1760-1839), Captain Stephen Hall's Company, 7th 
Regiment Connecticut Continental Infantry, Colonel 
Heman Swift, May 15, 1780. 

1890. Foote, Gilbert Flagler, 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Cornelius Van Wyck,, 
5th Regiment Dutchess County Militia, Colonel 
Abraham Brinckerhoff, killed at White Plains, Octo 
ber 31, 1776. 



132 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

Also, G-reat - great - grandson, of Private Aaron Hall 
(1760-1839), Captain Stephen Hall's Company 7th 
Eegiment Connecticut Continental Infantry, Colonel 
Heman Swift, May 15, 1780. 

1889. Foote, Morris Cooper (Captain U. S. A.), 267 

Great-grandson of Major Jacob Morris (1755-1844), 
Major in Westchester County (New York) Militia, 
Colonel Dubois, December 14, 1776 ; Aide-de-Camp to 
Major-General Charles Lee, 1776; Aide-de-Camp to 
Major-General Nathaniel Greene, 1778. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Lewis Morris (1726-1798), 
Brigadier-General of Westchester County Militia, 
1776; Delegate to Continental Congress, 1774-7; 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

1891. Forbes, Frank Herbert, 523 

Great-grandson of Private James Hall (1752-1780), Cap- 
tain Daniel Hand's Company. Colonel Talcott's Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, May 22, 1776; died on 
prison ship at New York, January 16, 1780. 

1891. Forbes, Henry Hall, M. D., 

Great-great-grandson of Private James Hall (1752- 
1780), Captain Daniel Hand's Company, Colonel Tal- 
cott's Regiment Connecticut Militia, died on prison 
ship at New York, January 16, 17S0; commissioned 
May 22, 1776. 

1891. Ford, James Duff, 

Grandson of Lieutenant Chilion Ford (1757-1800), 2d 
Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery (New 
Jersey), Colonel John Lamb, April 10, 1777; Quarter- 
master same Regiment, August 1, 1779. 
Also, Grandson of Sergeant John Burnham (1758- 
L837), Captain Charles Whiting's Company, Colonel 
S. B. Webb's Regiment, "additional Continental," 
May 15, 1777; Seaman on Continental frigate 
'"Trumbull," Commander Saltonstall, February, 
1777; taken prisoner 1778; confined in New York 
"Sugar House," thence to prison ship "Good In- 
tent;" exchanged and subsequently served on a 
privateer under Captain Bulkley. 



133 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1892. Ford. James E., 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob Ford 
(1744-1837), Captain of 4th Company, 9th Regiment 
Albany County Militia, Colonel Peter Van Ness, 
October 20, 1775 ; promoted 1st Major same ; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel same, May 28, 1778. 



1890. Ford, Paul Leicester, 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Noah Webster (1722- 
1813), Connecticut Militia, on duty on Hudson River, 

1777. 



1889. Ford, William H., 32 

Great-grandson of Private Abijah Ford, Private in 
Captain Benjamin Hoppin's Company, 4th Regiment 
Rhode Island Continental Infantry, Colonel Christo- 
pher Lippitt, served at Trenton and Princeton; hon- 
orably discharged at Moi'ristown, 1777; Private Cap- 
tain William Humphrey's Company, 2d Regiment 
Rhode Island Continental Infantry, Colonel Israel 
Angell, 1777; transferred to 1st Regiment Rhode Isl- 
and Continental Infantry, Colonel Christopher 
Greene, January 1, 1781; honorably discharged, No- 
vember 3, 1783. 



1891. Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 

Great -great-grandson of Captain Noah Webster (1722- 
1S13), Connecticut Militia, on duty on Hudson River. 
1777. 



1887. *Foster, James A. (died March 10, 1888), 

Great-grandson of Brevet Major-General James Clinton 
(1736-1812), Colonel 3d Regiment New York Line, 
1775; Brigadier-General Continental Army, 1776; 
Major-General Continental Army, by brevet, 1783. 



134 

No. of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Fowler, Edward Sidney, 650 

Great-grandson of Private Abel Belknap (1739-1804), 
Private in Captain Samuel Clark's Company, Col- 
onel Jonathan Hasbrouck's Regiment Ulster County 
Militia, 4th Brigade, 1776. 

1888. Fowler, Robert Ludlow, 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Charles Rumsey (1736- 
1780), County Lieutenant Cecil County Militia, Mary- 
land, 1777; Colonel of " Elk" Battalion Cecil County 
Militia, 1776; Member Maryland Convention, 1775; 
Member Maryland Council of Safety, 1776. 

1888. Fowler, Thomas Powell, 240 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Charles Rumsey (1736- 
1780), County Lieutenant Cecil County Militia, Mary- 
land, 1777; Colonel of "Elk" Battalion Cecil County 
Militia, 1776; Member Maryland Convention, 1775: 
Member Maryland Council of Safety, 1776. 

1891. Frelinghuysen, Joseph Sherman, 

Great-gi'andson of Colonel Frederick Frelinghuysen 

( 1804), 1st Major of Colonel Stewart's Battalion 

New Jersey Minute Men, February 15, 1776; Captain 
Eastern Company of Artillery, New Jersey State 
Troops, March 1, 1776 ; Colonel 1st Battalion Somerset 
County Militia, February 28, 1778; Member of New 
Jersey Provincial Congress, 1775-8 ; Member of Con- 
tinental Congress, 1778, and 1782-3. 

1889. French, Reverend Louis, 

Grandson of Lieutenant William Glenney (1743-1791), 
Private in Captain McGregier's Company, 4th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Line, Colonel John Durkee, Janu- 
ary 16, 1776; Sergeant in same, January 1, 1777; 
Ensign in same, May 20, 1779; Lieutenant in 1st 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Durkee, Janu- 
ary 1, 1781 ; Ensign 1st Regiment Connecticut Line, 
Colonel Zebulon Butler, January, 1783; Lieutenant in 
Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment, "final formation.' 
June, 1783. 



135 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. French, Louis Mardenbrough, 302 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant William Glenney (1743- 
1791), Private in Captain McGregier's Company, 4th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel John Dui*kee, 
January 16, 1776; Sergeant in same, January 1, 1777; 
Ensign in same, May 20, 1779; Lieutenant in 1st 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Durkee, January 
1, 1781; Ensign 1st Regiment Connecticut Line, Col- 
onel Zebulon Butler, January, 1783; Lieutenant in 
Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment, "final formation," 
June, 1783. 
Also, Great-grandson of Midshipman Samuel Stowe 
(1758-1830), Midshipman on the Continental frigate 
"Trumbull," Commander Saltonstall, December 15, 
1776 ; Midshipman on man-of-war " Oliver Cromwell," 
Captain Coit, January 20, 1778. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Stephen Stowe, who 
volunteered as nurse to the Continental soldiers con- 
fined in the prison-ships, and died of a contagious 
disease while on such service. 

1889. French, William Freeman, M. D., 238 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant William Glenney (1743- 
1791), Private in Captain McGregiers Company, 4th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel John Durkee, 
January 16, 1776; Sergeant in same, January 1, 1777; 
Ensign in same, May 20, 1779; Lieutenant in 1st 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Durkee, January 
1, 1781 ; Ensign 1st Regiment Connecticut Line, Col- 
onel Zebulon Butler, January, 1783; Lieutenant in 
Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment, "final formation,'" 
June, 1783. 
Also, Great-grandson of Midshipman Samuel Stowe 
(1758-1830), Midshipman on the Continental frigate 
"Trumbull," Commander Saltonstall, December 15, 
1776 ; Midshipman on man-of-war ' ' Oliver Cromwell," 
Captain Coit, January 20, 1778. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Stephen Stowe, who 
volunteered as nurse to the Continental soldiers con- 
fined in the prison-ships, and died of a contagious 
disease while on such service. 



136* 



No. of 
Insignia. 



1889. Frey, Augustus Beardslee, 

Great-grandson of Brigade-Major John Frey (1740-1833), 
Tryon County (New York) Militia, Colonel Marinus 
Willett, August 6, 1777. 

1890. Frothingham, Samuel, 

Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Frothingham (1722- 
1791), one of the "Boston Tea Party," and member 
of the Boston Committee of Correspondence. 

1887. Fry, George Gardiner, 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Benjamin Fry, 4th 

Regiment Rhode Island State Troops. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel Amos Atwell, 
Rhode Island Militia. 

1889. Fuller, Levi K., 127 

Great-grandson of Private Jacob Constantine, Colonel 
Whitcomb's Begiment, Massachusetts Line. 



1891. Gadsden, George Morrall, 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Christopher 
Gadsden (1724-1805), Continental Army; Delegate 
1st Continental Congress; Colonel 1st Regiment 
South Carolina Militia, 1775 ; Colonel 3d Regiment 
South Cai-olina Militia, 1775; Member Continental 
Naval Committee, 1776; Brigadier-General Conti- 
nental Army, 1776; Member Constitutional Conven- 
tion, South Carolina; Lieutenant-Governor, South 
Carolina, 1780; Member South Carolina Assembly, 
1782; elected Governor of South Carolina, 1782; 
was prisoner at St. Augustine, July, 1780, to June, 
1781. 

1883. Gallup, C. Van Eversdyk, 

Great-great-grandson of Major-General William Heath, 
Continental Army, Massachusetts. 



137 

No, of 
Elected. I nsignia. 

1876. Gardiner, Asa Bird, LL. D., 83 

Great-grandson of Ensign Reuben Willard (1755-1823), 
Volunteer in Captain Jonathan Davis' Company of 
Minute Men, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; 
enlisted in 24th Regiment Continental Infantry, 
Colonel Ephraim Doolittle, April 28, 1775 ; promoted 
Ensign in same, November 27, 1775; honorably re- 
tired on reorganization of the main Continental 
Army, January 1, 1776 ; 2d Lieutenant 2d Regiment 
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Jonathan 
Holman, Brigadier-General John Fellows' Brigade, 
June 25 to December 1, 1776 ; volunteei^ed in Captain 
Jonathan Davis' Company, Colonel Samuel Denny's 
Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, June 
25, 1779, appointed Sergeant-Major; promoted Lieu- 
tenant in same, August 12, 1779; honorably dis- 
charged March 25, 1780. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Othaniel Gar- 
diner (1743-1777), Associator, 1775 ; Lieutenant in 14th 
Regiment Albany County (New York) Militia, Colo- 
nel John Knickerbacker, October 20, 1775, at "Ben- 
nington " ; died in service December, 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of Sergeant Jacob Rosenbergh 
(1756-1828), Sergeant in Captain John Tater's Com- 
pany, Colonel Cornelius Dotas Regiment Vermont 
Militia; served at Battle of Bennington; honorably 
discharged October 23, 1781. 

Also, Representative of Lieutenant Jonathan Willard 
(1744-1832), Sergeant in Captain Samuel Wetherbee's 
Company, 2d Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer 
Infantry, Colonel Isaac Wyman, for "Canadian 
service," July 16, 1776; 1st Sergeant in same, August 
6, 1776; Ensign in 1st Regiment New Hampshire 
Continental Infantry, Colonel John Stark. Novem- 
ber 8, 1776; 2d Lieutenant in same. January 10, 1778; 
1st Lieutenant in same, August 24, 1779 ; appointed 
Regimental Quartermaster, July 20, 1780; honorably 
discharged May 10, 1782. 



No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Gardiner, George Norman, 273 

Great-grandson of Ensign Reuben Willard (1755-1823), 
Volunteer in Captain Jonathan Davis 1 Company of 
Minute Men, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; 
enlisted in 24th Regiment Continental Infantry, 
Colonel Ephraim Doolittle, April 28, 1775: promoted 
Ensign in same, November 27, 1775; honorably re- 
tired on reorganization of the main Continental 
Army, January 1, 1776; 2d Lieutenant 2d Regiment 
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Jonathan 
Holman, Brigadier-General John Fellows' Brigade, 
dune 25 to December 1, 177(3; volunteered in Captain 
Jonathan Davis' Company, Colonel Samuel Denny's 
Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, June 
25, 1779, appointed Sergeant-Major; promoted Lieu- 
tenant in same, August 12, 1779; honorably dis- 
charged March 25, 1780. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Othaniel Gar- 
diner (1743-1777), Associator, 1775; Lieutenant in 14th 
Regiment Albany County (New York) Militia, Colo- 
nel John Knickerbacker, October 20, 1775, at "Ben- 
nington "; died in service December, 1777. 
Also, Great-grandson of Sergeant Jacob Rosenbergh 
(1756-1828), Sergeant in Captain John Tater's Com- 
pany, Colonel Cornelius Dota's Regiment Vermont 
Militia ; served at Battle of Bennington ; honorably 
discharged October 23, 1781. 

1889. Garrison, William Dominick, 532 

Great-grandson of Captain George Dominick (1730 ), 

14th Beat Company, 2d Regiment New York City 
Militia, Colonel John Jay, August 29, 1775. 

1887. Gawtry, E. Harrison, 

Great-grandson of Wagon master Zadock Hedden, Con- 
tinental Wagonmaster-General's Department, New 
Jersey. 

1887. Gedney, Frederick G., 67 

Great-grandson of Private Phineas Mapes, Additional 
Regiment Continental Infantry, Colonel William 
Malcolm. 



139 

No. Of 
Insignia. 

Geer. Frederic Mills, 

Grandson of Corporal Samuel Frederick Mills (1759- 
1857), Private Fairfield County Militia, Lexington 
Alarm, April 19, 1775; Private Captain Tomlinson's 
Company, 4th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Ichabod Lewis, August, 1776, served 
around New York; Private in Captain Blackman's 
Company, Colonel Whiting's Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, November, 1776, served inWestcbester County, 
New York ; served in Westchester County, February, 
1777; at Ridgefield, Connecticut, April 27, 1777 ; served 
at the Sawpits, under Colonel Deming, June 1, 1777; 
Private in Captain John Yates' Company, Connecti- 
cut Militia, September, 1777, served at Fishkill, New 
York; Private in Captain Pettibone's Company, 
Colonel Canfield's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
December, 1777, served at Kingsbridge, New York; 
Private in Captain Leavenworth's Company, Colonel 
Whiting's Regiment Connecticut Militia, at Fairfield, 
May, 1778; Corporal in Captain John Yates' Com- 
pany, Connecticut Militia, at Horse Neck, July, 1779. 



1885. Genet, Albert Rivers, 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier and Brevet Major- 
General George Clinton (1739-1812), Brigadier-Gen- 
eral Continental Army, 1776 ; Member of Continental 
Congress, 1775; Governor of New York, 1777-95; 
Major-General by brevet. 

1883. Genet, George Clinton, 95 

Grandson of Brigade-Major Samuel Osgood, Pri- 
vate in Captain Peter Talbot's Company, Colonel 
Lemuel Robinson's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
marched from Stoughton, on Lexington Alarm, 
April 19, 1775 ; Brigade-Major Massachusetts Militia, 
1775; Member of Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 
1775-6; Aide-de-Camp to General Ward, 1775-7; 
Representative to Massachusetts General Court, 1776. 
1779-84; Member Massachusetts Senate, 1760; mem- 
ber Continental Congress, 1781. 



140 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Gerry, Allston, 236 

Great-grandson of Private Humphrey H. Bichards, 
Private in Captain Migh ell's Company, Massachusetts 
Militia, from Rowley, April, 1775. 

Also, Great-grandson of Sergeant Reuben Gary, Private 
in Captain Thomas Gates' Company, Lancaster Militia, 
Lexington Alarm, 1775 ; Private in Captain Samuel 
Sawyer's Company, Colonel Dike's Regiment, January 
1, 1777; Sergeant in Captain John White's Company, 
Colonel Job Cushing's Regiment, Bennington Alarm, 
July 28, 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of Commander Ephraim Lombard, 
Privateer Service, Massachusetts, 1778. 

1885. Gerry, Elbridge T. (Life Member), 

Grandson of Elbridge Gerry, Signer of the Declaration 
of Independence, Massachusetts. 

1887. Gibson, George Rutledge, 186 

Great-grandson of Edward Rutledge (1749-1800), Signer 
of the Declaration of Independence, South Carolina. 

1887. *Gibson, James Renwick, Jr. (died March 5, 1890), 

Great-great-grandson of Ensign Mathew Van Keuren, 
2d Regiment Dutchess County Minute Men, New York. 

1888. Gibson, Robert Renwick, 

Great-great-great-graudson of Ensign Mathew Van Keu- 
ren, 2d Regiment Dutchess County Minute Men, New 
York. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Governor Richard How- 
ley, Member Georgia Legislature, 1779 ; Governor of 
Georgia, 1780; Member of Continental Congress, 
1780-81. 

1888. Goodwin, James Junius, 225 

Great-grandson of Captain Lemuel Roberts, Captain of 
Simsbury Militia that marched in the Lexington 
Alarm, April, 1775 ; also in the Commissary's Depart- 
ment; Captain 18th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
August 24, 1776, in service around New York, 1776. 



141 

No. Of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Goodrich, Le Roy Livingston, 331 

Great-grandson of Sergeant William Johnson (1758- 
1851), Private in Captain "Watson's Company, 9th Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Continental Infantry. Colonel 
Wesson, January 1, 1777; Sergeant in Captain North's 
Company, Colonel Henry Jackson's Regiment Mas- 
sachusetts Continental Infantry, March, 1781; after- 
wards transferred to Captain White's Company of 
Light Infantry. 



1886. Goold, Clarence Winfield, 152 

Great-grandson of Ensign Josiah Moody, Corporal in 
Captain Henry Dearborn's Company, Colonel John 
Stark's Regiment New Hampshire Militia, 1775 ; En- 
sign 5th Regiment New Hampshire Continental In- 
fantry, Colonel John Waldron, 1776. 

1891. Graham, Malcolm, 

Great-grandson of Private Andrew Graham (1728- 
1785), Captain John Hinman's Company 13th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Benjamin Hinman, 
August 18, 1776; served around New York, 1776; 
later Surgeon in same Regiment. 

1891. Grant, William Daniel, 646 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel James Jackson 
(1757-1806), Lieutenant, promoted Captain, Georgia 
Militia, 1775-6 ; Major in Colonel Baker's Regiment 
Georgia Militia, 1779 ; Brigade-Major of General An- 
drew Pickens' Brigade, January, 1781 ; Lieutenant- 
Colonel Georgia Militia, 1781; received the formal 
surrender of Savannah, 1782. 
Also, Great-grandson of Ensign Thomas Grant (1757- 
1828), Ensign in 6th Regiment North Carolina Conti- 
nental Infantry, April 16, 1776. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of William Young (1743- 
1776), Speaker of Georgia Assembly 1775, and Mem- 
ber of 1st Georgia Provincial Congress. 



142 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Green, William, *632 

Grandson of Captain James Green (1751-1837), Captain 
Whithorn Adams' Company New Hampshire Conti- 
nental Infantry, Colonel Enoch Poor. 
Also. Grandson of John McKinley (1751-1811), enlisted 
at Danbnry, Connecticut, 1778, for two years' service 
as Artillery Artificer. 



1888. Green, William Webb, 

Grandson of Captain James Green, 2d Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia Light Horse, Major Elijah Hyde, at 
" Saratoga." 

Also, Grandson of "Landman" William Webb, Con- 
tinental Frigate ''Trumbull." 

Also, Great-grandson of Ebenezer Webb, Associator, 
Suffolk County, New York. 

1891. Greene, Charles Arthur, 638 

Great-great-grandson of Ensign John Greene (1745- 
1830), Ensign of 2d Company Charleston (Rhode 
Island) Militia, 1780. 

1890. Greene, Edward, 364 

Great-grandson of Colonel Christopher Greene (1727- 
1781), Major in Colonel J. M. Varnum/s Regiment, 
Rhode Island, May, 1775; Colonel of 1st Regiment 
Rhode Island Continental Infantry, May, 1777; 
voted a sword for gallant services at Red Bank, 
New Jersey; killed in Westchester County, New 
York. May 13, 1781. 

1888. Greene, Richard Henry, 92 

Great-grandson of Captain James Green, 2d Regiment 
Connecticut Militia Light Horse, Major Elijah Hyde, 
at "Saratoga." 
Also, Great-grandson of " Landman " William Webb, 

Continental Frigate "Trumbull." 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Ebenezer Webb, Associ- 
ator, Suffolk County, New York. 



143 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Greene, John Wynantz } M. D. (Life Member), 519 

Great-grandson of Captain Benjamin Winans, 1st Reg- 
iment Essex County Militia, New Jersey. 

1890. Greenwood. Isaac John, 333 

Grandson of Fife-Major John Greenwood (1760-1790), 
Fifer in Captain Theo. T. Bliss's Company, Massa- 
chusetts Militia, May, 1775, and appointed Fife-Major 
in Colonel Patterson's Regiment Lenox Militia, serv- 
ing to close of 1776 ; Fifer in Captain John Hinckley's 
Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Symcnd's Detachment 
of Guards in Boston, February 13, 1778; Midshipman 
on privateer "Cumberland," Commander John 
Manly, January, 1779; captured, and prisoner some 
months, at Barbadoes; Master-at-Arms on privateer 
'"Tartar," Captain David Porter, November, 1779; 
served on brigantine "General Lincoln,'* Captain 
John Carnes, captured and carried to New York, 1780 ; 
served on lettei*-of-marque "Aurora," Captain Porter, 
October, 1780; 2d Mate on letter-of -marque "Race 
Horse," Captain Thayer, 1781; in active naval service 
to close of war. 

1890. Greenwood, Langdon, 338 

Grandson of Fife-Major John Greenwood (1760-1790), 
Fifer in Captain Theo. T. Bliss's Company, Massa- 
chusetts Militia, May, 1775, and appointed Fife-Major 
in Colonel Patterson's Regiment Lenox Militia, serv- 
ing to close of 1776 ; Fifer in Captain John Hinckley's 
Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Symond's Detachment 
of Guards in Boston, February 13, 1778; Midshipman 
on privateer "Cumberland," Commander John 
Manly, January, 1779; captured, and prisoner some 
months, at Barbadoes; Master-at-Arms on privateer 
"Tartar," Captain David Porter, November, 1779; 
served on brigantine " General Lincoln," Captain 
John Carnes, captured and carried to New York, 1780 ; 
served on letter-of-marque "Aurora," Captain Porter, 
October. 1780; 2d Mate on letter-of-marque "Race 
Horse," Captain Thayer, 1781; in active naval service 
to close of war. 



144 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Greenwood, Langdon, Jr., 356 

Great-grandson of Fife-Major John Greenwood (1760- 
1790), Fifer in Captain Theo. T. Bliss's Company, 
Massachusetts Militia, May, 1775, and appointed Fife- 
Major in Colonel Patterson's Regiment Lenox Militia, 
serving to close of 1776; Fifer in Captain John 
Hinckley's Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Symond's 
Detachment of Guards in Boston, February 13, 1778; 
Midshipman on privateer "Cumberland," Com- 
mander John Manly, 1779; captured, and prisoner 
some months, at Barbadoes; Master-at-Arms on 
privateer "Tartar," Captain David Porter, November, 
1779; served on brigantine "General Lincoln," 
Captain John Carnes, captured and carried to New 
York, 1780; served on letter-of-marque "Aurora," 
Captain Porter, October, 1780; 2d Mate on letter-of- 
marque "Race Horse," Captain Thayer, 1781; in 
active naval service to close of war. 



1891. Gregg, Levi Laertes. 

Great-grandson of Captain James Gi'egg, 2d Lieuten- 
ant 3d Regiment New York Line, July 21, 1775 ; 2d 
Lieutenant 4th Regiment New York Line, February 
28, 1776 ; 1st Lieutenant 3d Regiment New York 
Line, June 26, 1776 ; Captain 6th Company 3d Regi- 
ment New York Line, Colonel Peter Gansevoort, 
November 21, 1776 ; was shot through the body, 
tomahawked, and scalped, at Fort Schuyler, June 
25, 1777; recovered, and served to close of war. 



1888. Griffin. Francis B., 217 

Great-grandson of Colonel Zebulon Butler (1731-1795), 
Lieutenant-Colonel 3d Regiment Connecticut Line, 
January 1, 1777; Colonel 2d Regiment Connecticut 
Line, November 15, 1778; on duty at Wyoming 
Massacre, July 3, 1778; with Sullivan's Expedition, 
1779: Colonel 4th Regiment Connecticut Line, 1781; 
Colonel 1st Regiment Connecticut Line, "final form- 
ation/" 1783. 



145 

N °- o f 
Elected. Insignia. 

1887. G-riswold, Chester, 

Great-grandson of Private Simeon G-riswold (1753-1843), 
Private in Captain Thomas Pitkin's Company, Con- 
necticut Militia; marched to Boston, on Lexington 
Alarm, 1775 ; Private Captain Solomon Willes' Com- 
pany, 2d Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Spencer, 
1777. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Ste- 
phen Moulton, Lieutenant-Colonel (Stafford, Con- 
necticut) Militia, Lexington Alarm, 1775; Lieutenant- 
Colonel 22d Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel 
Samuel Chapman; taken prisoner at New York, 
September 15, 1776, exchanged March 2. 1777. 



1888. Grubb, Edward Burd, 

Great-grandson of Captain Peter Grubb, 3d Lieutenant, 
Captain George Nagel's Company of Riflemen, at 
Cambridge, July 17, 1775; Captain in Colonel Sam- 
uel Miles 1 "Rifles, 1 ' March 12, 1776; Captain in Col- 
onel John Pattern's Regiment (Pennsylvania) 
"Additional Continental, 11 1777. 



1888. Guernsey, Egbert, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Chauncey Garnsey, Litchfield 
County Militia, Connecticut, 

1884. Guild, Frederick Augustus, 105 

Great-grandson of Captain Joseph Guild, Captain 
of Company Dedham Minute Men ' ' Lexington 
Alarm, 11 1775; Captain 24th Regiment Continental 
Infantry, Colonel John Greaton, served in Canada 
under General Montgomery, 1775 ; Member Massachu- 
setts Provincial Congress, 1776 ; Member of Massachu- 
setts Committee of Safety, Correspondence, and 
Inspection, 1775-S1. 



146 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1884. Hackley, Caleb Brewster, 21 

Grandson of Captain-Lieutenant Caleb Brewster ( 

1827), 2d Lieutenant Suffolk County Militia, 1776; 
Ensign 2d Company, Captain John Davis, 4th Regi- 
ment New York Line, Colonel Henry B. Livingston, 
1776; 1st Lieutenant 2d Regiment Continental Corps 
of Artillery, Colonel John Lamb. 1777; promoted 
Captain-Lieutenant of same, 1780; honorably dis- 
charged at close of war. Also Associator Suffolk 
County, New York, 1775. 

1887. Hackstaff, William G., 272 

Grandson of William Hallock, Associator, Suffolk 
County, New York. 

1889. Haight, Frederick Everest, 531 

Great-great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac 
Cook, Jr. (1739-1810), Captain 7th Company, 1st 
Regiment Connecticut Continental Infantry, Colonel 
David Wooster, May 1, 1775 ; Major 10th Regiment 
Connecticut Militia. Colonel James Wadsworth, Jan- 
uary 10, 1780; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, June, 
1783. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Captain Isaac Cook, 
Sr. (1711-1790), Captain of Wallingford (Connecticut) 
Militia "Lexington Alarm," April 19,1775; served 
around Boston. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Aaron Betts 
(1757-1833), Private in Captain Aaron Rowley's Com- 
pany, Colonel John Brown's Detachment Massachu- 
setts Militia, at Ticonderoga, June 30, 1777; Private 
in Captain Amos Rathbun's Company, same Reg- 
iment, September 21, 1777; Private in Captain James 
Raymond's Company, Colonel Rossiter's Regiment 
Hampshire County Militia, Fellowes Brigade, Octo- 
ber 14, 1780, at "Saratoga." 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Daniel Everest 
(1752-1825), Private in Captain John Stevens' Com- 
pany, Connecticut Continental Infantry, Colonel 
Charles Burrall, February 21, 1776; served in the 
Northern Department under General Schuyler. 



147 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Captain Stephen 
Hall (1724-1783), 1st Lieutenant 2d Company, Cap- 
tain Andrew Ward, 1st Regiment Connecticut Conti- 
nental Infantry, Colonel David Wooster, May 1, 
1775; Captain in Colonel Heman Swift's Battalion 
Connecticut State Troops, July, 1770; Captain 7th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Heman Swift, 
January 1, 1777; retired by consolidation, January 1, 
1781. 

1891. Hale. Joseph, Captain U. S. A.. 714 

Great-grandson of Private Richard Downing (1757- 
1790), Private in Captain Joseph Whipple's Company 
Essex County (Massachusetts) Militia, raised for de- 
fense of the seacoast, July 13, 1775. to December 31, 
1775 ; Matross in 2d Company, Captain Joseph Mel- 
vill, Colonel Craft's Battalion Massachusetts Artil- 
lery. May 29. 1776, to May 8, 1777. 

1887. Hale, Matthew, 

Grandson of Colonel Nathan Hale, Captain in command 
of Company of New Hampshire Militia, marched to 
Lexington and Cambridge on "Lexington Alarm," 
April, 1775 ; appointed Major in Colonel Reed's Reg- 
iment New Hampshire Continental Infantry, June, 
1775; Lieutenant-Colonel 2d Battalion (Continental), 
1776: promoted Colonel, 1777; taken prisoner on 
Long Island, and died there while a prisoner, Septem- 
ber 23, 17S0. 

1888. Hall, Frederick J., 

Great-great-grandson of Private James M. Hall, in Cap- 
tain Joseph Chapin's Company of Massachusetts 
Minute Men, that marched from Uxbridge on " Lex- 
ington Alarm," April 19, 1775. 

1888. Hall, Henry, 308 

Great-grandson of Private William Hall, Connecticut 
Militia. 



148 

No. of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Halsey, George A., 76 

Great-grandson of Private Jonathan Osborn, Captain 
Peter Hallock's Company, Suffolk County Militia, 
New York. 



1890. Hamersley, Andrew S., Jr., 

Great-great-grandson of Governor and Bi*igadier-Gen- 
eral William Livingston (1723-1790), Brigadier- Gen- 
eral New Jersey Militia, October 28, 1775 ; Governor 
of New Jersey, 1776-90; also Member of Continental 
Congress. 



1890. Hamilton, Reverend Alexander, 

Great-grandson of Brevet Colonel Alexander Hamilton 
(1757-1804), Captain of New York Provincial Artil- 
lery, 1776 ; Lieutenant-Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to 
the Commander-in-Chief, 1777; Colonel by brevet at 
close of war. 

Also, Great-great-gi*andson of Major-General Philip 
Schuyler (1733-1804), Major-General Continental 
Army, 1775; resigned 1779; Delegate to Continental 
Congress, 1775-7; Member New York Provincial 
Congress, 1778-9 ; Member New York State Senate, 
1781-84. 



1886. *Hamilton, Robert Ray (died August 23, 1890), 

Great-grandson of Brevet Colonel Alexander Hamilton 
(1757-1804), Captain of New York Provincial Artil- 
lery, 1776 ; Lieutenant-Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to 
the Commander-in-Chief, 1777; Colonel by brevet at 
close of war. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Major-General Philip 
Schuyler (1733-1804), Major-General Continental 
Army, 1775 ; resigned 1779 ; Delegate to Continental 
Congress, 1775-7; Member New York Provincial 
Congress, 1778-9; Member of New York Senate, 
1781-4. 



149 

Elected. Insignia.. 

1888. Hamilton, Schuyler, 353. 

Grandson of Brevet Colonel Alexander Hamilton 
(1757-1804), Captain of New York Provincial Artil- 
lery, 1776 ; Lieutenant-Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to 
the Commander-in-Chief, 1777; Colonel by brevet at 
close of war. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major-General Philip Schuyler 
(1733-1804), Major-General Continental Army. 1775; 
resigned 1779; Delegate to Continental Congress, 
1775-7; Member New York Provincial Congress, 
177S-9 ; Member New York State Senate, 1781-4. 



1886. Hamilton, William Gaston, 13 

Grandson of Brevet Colonel Alexander Hamilton 
(1757-1804), Captain of New York Provincial Artil- 
lery, 1776 ; Lieutenant-Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to 
the Commander-in-Chief, 1777; Colonel by brevet at 
close of war. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major-General Philip Schuyler 
(1733-1804), Major-General Continental Army. 1775; 
resigned 1779; Delegate to Continental Congress, 
1775-7; Member New York Provincial Congress, 
1778-9; Member New York State Senate, 1781-4. 



1892. Hamilton, William Pierson, 805 

Great-grandson of Brevet Colonel Alexander Hamilton 
(1757-1804), Captain of New York Provincial Artil- 
lery, 1776 ; Lieutenant-Colonel and Aide-de-Camp to 
the Commander-in-Chief, 1777 ; Colonel by brevet at 
close of war. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Major-General Philip 
Schuyler (1733-1804), Major-General Continental 
Army, 1775 ; resigned 1779 ; Delegate to Continental 
Congress, 1775-7; Member New York Provincial 
Congress, 1778-9; Member New York State Senate. 
1781-4. 



150 

Elected. Insignia. 

1892. Hammond, Andrew Goodrich, Lieutenant U. S. A., 794 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Colonel John Bar- 
rett (1731-1806), Captain in Colonel Seth Warner's 
Regiment, Vermont Militia, 1775; Lieutenant-Col- 
onel Upper Regiment Cumberland County New York 
(Vermont) Militia, November 21, 1775. 



1892. Hammond. Graeme Monroe, M. D., 

Great-great-grandson of Rezin Hammond (1706-1781), 
Member of the Maryland Constitutional Convention, 
1776. 



1890. Harden, William, 436 

Great-grandson of Colonel John Baker, Commanding 
Liberty County Militia, Georgia. 



1887. Harper, Franklin, 299 

Great-great-grandson of Peter Lyon (1744-1824), Mem- 
ber of Committee of Safety. Westchester County, 
New York. 



1892. Harriman. Francis Cottenet, 796 

Great-great-great-grandson of Josiah Hornblower, 
Speaker of Lower House (Assembly) Provincial 
Congress, New Jersey, 1780; Member of Upper 
House (Council), 1781-4. 



1892. Harriman, William Edward, 795 

Great-great-great-grandson of Josiah Hornblower, 
Speaker of Lower House (Assembly) Provincial 
Congress, New Jersey, 1780; Member of Upper 
House (Council), 1781-4. 



151 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia, 

1890. Harrison, Russell B., 448 

Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison of Virginia 
(1730-1791), Member of Virginia Conventions; Mem- 
ber of Continental Congress ; Signer of the Declara- 
tion of Independence; Chairman of the Continental 
Board of War; and Governor of Virginia, 1782. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel John Cleves 
Symmes (1742-1814), 3d Battalion Sussex County 
Militia, resigned, May 23, 1777, to accept the appoint- 
ment of Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Governor and Brig- 
adier-General William Livingson (1723-1790), Brig- 
adier-General New Jersey Militia, October 28, 1775; 
Member of Continental Congress; and Governor of 
New Jersey, 1776-90. 

1891. Harrison, William Henry, 674 

Great-grandson of Private John Woolsey, Jr. (1752- 
1815), Private in Captain Marcus Moseman's Com- 
pany 2d Regiment Westchester County Militia, Col- 
onel Thomas Thomas, 1778. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private John Woolsey, 
Sr. (1727-1805), Private in Captain Marcus Moseman's 
Company 2d Regiment Westchester County Militia, 
Colonel Thomas Thomas, 1778. 

1891. Harvey, Leon Ferdinand, 747 

Great-grandson of Orderly-Sergeant John Sherwood 
(1754-1841), Orderly-Sergeant in Captain Thomas De 
Witt's Company, 3d Regiment New York Line, Col- 
onel Gansevoort, May 14, 1778 ; discharged on account 
of ill-health, November, 1778. 

1889. Harvey, Richard S., 

Great-grandson of Colonel Samuel Selden (1723-1776), 
Major 3d Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel 
Saltonstall, 1775 ; Colonel 4th Battalion Wadsworth's 
Brigade Connecticut Militia, June 20, 1776; taken 
prisoner at New York, September 15, 1776 : died while 
a prisoner in New York, October 11, 1776: Member 
of Connecticut Assembly, 1776. 



152 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1885. Hatch, Arthur Melvin, 3 

Great-great-grandson of the Rev. Nathanael Taylor 
(1722-1800), of New Milford, Connecticut, contributed 
one year's salary to the cause, as shown by Parish 
records, April, 1779. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Joseph Hatch, Captain 
Turner's Company, Colonel John Cushing's Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Militia. 



1889. Hatch, Henry Prescott, 

Great-great-grandson of the Rev. Nathanael Taylor 
(1722-1800), of New Milford, Connecticut, contrib- 
uted one year's salary to the cause, as shown by 
Parish records, April, 1779. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Joseph Hatch, Captain 
Turner's Company, Colonel John Cushing's Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Militia. 



1886. *Hatch, Nathaniel W. T. (died May 8, 1888), 

Great-great-grandson of the Rev. Nathanael Taylor 
(1722-1800), of New Milford, Connecticut, contrib- 
uted one year's salary to the cause, as shown by 
Parish records, April, 1779. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Joseph Hatch, Captain 
Turner's Company, Colonel John Cushing's Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Militia. 



1884. Hawes, Gilbert Ray, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Hawes (1727- 
1818), Captain Fairbanks' Company Massachusetts 
Militia, and representative to General Court, 1778-81. 



1891. Hawkins, Rush Christopher, 

Grandson of Private Dexter Hawkins (1761-1830), 3d 
Regiment Rhode Island Infantry, Colonel Archibald 
Cary, December, 1776. 



153 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Hay, Henry Ludlow, 

Grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hay ( 1783), 

Captain 6th Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel William 
Irvine, January 9, 1776; Captain 7th Regiment 
Pennsylvania Line, Colonel William Irvine, October 
5. 1776; Major in same, March 12, 1777; Lieutenant- 
Colonel in same, and Lieutenant-Colonel 10th Regi- 
ment Pennsylvania Line, February 21, 1778; wound- 
ed in attack on Stony Point. 



1890. Hay, James Richards, 

Grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hay ( 1783), 

Captain 6th Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel William 
Irvine, January 9, 1776; Captain 7th Regiment 
Pennsylvania Line, Colonel William Irvine, October 
5, 1776; Major in same, March 12, 1777; Lieutenant- 
Colonel in same, and Lieutenant-Colonel 10th Regi- 
ment Pennsylvania Line, February 21, 1778 ; wounded 
in attack on Stony Point. 



1890. Hay, Silas Condit, 

Grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hay ( 1783), 

Captain 6th Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel William 
Irvine, January 9, 1776; Captain 7th Regiment 
Pennsylvania Line, Colonel William Irvine, October 
5, 1776; Major in same, March 12, 1777; Lieutenant- 
Colonel in same, and Lieutenant-Colonel 10th Regi- 
ment Pennsylvania Line, February 21, 1778; wound- 
ed in attack on Stony Point. 

1886. Hayes, Richard Somers, 135 

Great-grandnephew and representative of Captain 
John Barry (1715-1803), Captain of ship "Lexing- 
ton," 1776; served for a short time with the army in 
New Jersey, 1777; in command of Continental fri- 
gate "Raleigh," 32 guns, 1778; in command of the 
"Alliance," conveying United States Ambassador 
to the Court of France, 1781. 



154 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1885. Healey, Warren M., 15 

Great-grandson of Private James Thayer, Captain John 
Vinton's Independent Company, Massachusetts 
Militia. 



1888. Hecker, George F., 

Great-grandson of Private Jonah Winslow Wentworth, 
enlisted in Continental Infantry from Rhoton Hill, 
near Old Well, Connecticut; drew pension for services. 

1885. Hedden, Edward L., 

Grandson of Wagonmaster Zadock Hedden, Conti- 
nental Wagonmaster-General's Department, New 
Jersey. 

1887. Hedden, Josiah, 194 

Great-grandson of Wagonmaster Zadock Hedden, Con- 
tinental Wagonmaster-General's Department, New 
Jersey. 

1889. Heilner, George Corson, 15$ 

Great-grandson of Colonel Zebulon Butler (1731-1795), 
Lieutenant-Colonel 3d Regiment Connecticut Line, 
January 1, 1777; Colonel 2d Regiment Connecticut 
Line, November 15, 1778; on duty at Wyoming Mas- 
sacre, July 3, 1778; with Sullivan's Expedition, 1779; 
Colonel 4th Regiment Connecticut Line. 1781 ; Col 
onel 1st Regiment Connecticut Line, "final forma- 
tion," 1783. 

1889. Herrick, John Van Boskerck, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Rufus 
Herrick, Captain 4th Regiment Dutchess County 
(New York) Militia, Colonel Holmes, June 28, 1775 ; 
Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel Zephaniah Piatt's 
Regiment New York Associated Exempt Volunteer 
Infantry, October 19, 1779. 



155 

No. of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Higgins, Eugene, 190 

Great-grandson of Captain Daniel Baldwin, 1st Lieu- 
tenant in Captain Morris 1 Company, 1st Battalion 
1st Establishment New Jersey Line, November 8, 
1775; Captain 1st Battalion 2d Establishment, 
November 29, 1776; severely wounded, lost a leg in 
battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777; honorably 
discharged, March 1, 1779. 

1885. Hill, John L., 

Son of Sergeant Nicholas Hill (1766-1856), attached to 
3d Company, Captain Benjamin Hicks, 1st Regiment 
New York Continental Infantry, Colonel Goose Van 
Schaick, 1777; Musician same, 1778; honorably dis- 
charged with rank of Sergeant, June 8, 1783. 

1891. Hill, William Squire, 

Great-grandson of Captain Squire Hill (1747-1830), Ser- 
geant in Captain Thomas Knowlton's Company of 
Ashford (Connecticut) Militia, "Lexington Alarm," 
April 19, 1775; Ensign in Captain Knowlton's Com- 
pany 3d Regiment Connecticut Continental Infantry, 
Colonel Israel Putnam, May 1, 1775, at "Bunker 
Hill ;" 1st Lieutenant in Captain Amaziah Wright's 
Company, Colonel Roger Enos' Regiment Connecti- 
cut State Troops, 1776-7; Captain in Colonel Sam- 
uel McClellan's Regiment Connecticut State Troops, 
March 1, 1778; served in Tyler's Brigade, under 
General Sullivan, in Rhode Island, September, 1778. 

1889. Hine, Francis L., 260 

Great-grandson of Private Stephen Hine, of Brigadier- 
Genei-al Oliver Wolcott's Detachment Volunteers, 
Connecticut Militia, at "Saratoga" in 1777. 

1890. Hinman, Edward, 31$ 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Benjamin Hinman 
(1720-1810), Colonel 13th Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, 1775 ; Colonel 4th Regiment Connecticut Con- 
tinental Infantry, May 1, 1775; Member of Connect- 
icut General Assembly, 1757-98. 



156 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Hinman, Matthew, 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Benjamin Hinman 
(1720-1810), Colonel 13th Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, 1775; Colonel 4th Regiment Connecticut 
Continental Infantry, May 1, 1775 : Member of Con- 
necticut General Assembly, 1757-98. 



1889. Hoadley, James H., 20 

Grandson of Captain Andrew Hillyer (1743-1828), 
mustered a company of Militia, marched to 
Boston, "Lexington Alarm, 1 ' April, 1775; Lieuten- 
ant in Captain Elihu Humphrey's 8th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel Jedediah Huntington, July, 
1775; Adjutant same, 1776; Adjutant in Colonel 
Pettibone's Regiment of Militia, at Turtle Bay, New 
York, 1776 ; Ensign 2d Company, Captain Wylly's 
6th Battalion Wadsworth's Brigade, Colonel Chester, 
June, 1776 ; served in New York and on Long Isl- 
and; Captain of Connecticut Militia at Horse Neck, 
1779 ; Captain 5th Regiment Connecticut Light Horse, 
Colonel Elisha Sheldon, May, 1776. 

1889. Hodges, Alfred, 134 

Great-grandson of Colonel John Hathorn, "Florida 
and Warwick " Regiment, Orange County Militia, 
New York, February 28, 1776; called out on the 
"Alarm of Minisink," July, 1777; Chairman of 
Goshen Committee of Safety. 

1889. Hoes, Rev. Roswell Randall, U. S. N., 

Great-grandson of Ensign Peter Swart, 15th Regiment 
(Schoharie and Duanesburgh) Militia, New York, 
Colonel Peter Vrooman, February 20, 1778. 

1891. Holland, John Butterfeild, 698 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Ivory Holland (1740- 
1820), 5th Regiment Massachusetts Continental In- 
fantry, Colonel Rufus Putnam, November 11, 1778. 



157 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Hollister, Henry Hutchinson, 738 

Grandson of Captain John Hutchinson Buell (1753- 
1813), Sei-geant in Captain Daniel Tilden's Company, 
Lebanon (Connecticut) Militia, ' ' Lexington Alarm, " 
April 19, 1775; Captain in 1st Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Colonel John Durkee, 1777-83 ; honorably dis- 
charged, November 3, 1783. 



1885. Holt, George C, 88 

Grandson of Sergeant Nehemiah Holt (1756-1824), of 
Captain Thomas Dyer's Company 20th Regiment Con- 
tinental Foot (4th Connecticut, Colonel John Durkee) 
in 1776-7, and 1st Sergeant, 7th August, 1780, of 5th 
Company in Colonel Hezekiah Wylly's Regiment 
Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, garrisoning New 
London Harbor. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain James Stedman 
(1726-1788), Colonel Andrew Ward's Regiment Con- 
necticut Continental Infantry, 1776-7; and "Lex- 
ington Alarm," April, 1775. 



1890. Hone, John, Jr., 

Great-grandson of Christopher Raymond Perry (1761- 
1818), served on the "Mifflin," Commander Babcock; 
captured, confined in prison ship "Jersey"; escaped 
after three months' confinement ; subsequently served 
as Midshipman on Continental frigate "Trumbull," 
Captain James Nicholson. 



1891. Hone, John, 3d, 

Great-great-grandson of Christopher Raymond Perry 
(1761-1818), served on the "Mifflin," Commander 
Babcock; captured, confined in prison ship "Jer- 
sey " ; escaped after three months' confinement ; sub- 
sequently served as Midshipman on Continental 
frigate "Trumbull." Captain James Nicholson. 



363 



158 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia, 

1891. Hopkins, Henry Reed, 

Grandson of Sergeant James Hopkins (1761-1843), Pri- 
vate in Captain Joseph Finley's Company of New 
Hampshire Volunteers, from Londonderry, New 
Hampshire, October 10, 1776; Sergeant in Captain 
James Aikin's Company, Colonel Thomas Bartlett's 
Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in Continen- 
tal service, July 6, 1780, at West Point. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain James Aikin (1731- 
1817), Captain in Colonel Moses Kelley's Regiment 
New Hampshire Volunteers, served with Continental 
Army in Rhode Island, August 7, 1778 ; Captain in 
Colonel Thomas Bartlett's Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers in Continental service, Juno 20. 1780. 



1892. Hoppin, Francis Laurens Vinton, 

Great-grandson of Benjamin Hoppin (1747-1809), Lieu- 
tenant Rhode Island Militia. 1776: Captain Rhode 
Island State Troops, 1776: Captain 2d Regiment 
Rhode Island State Troops. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain William Jones (1755- 
1822), Colonel Christopher Lippitt's Regiment Rhode 
Island Continental Infantry 1776 ; later Captain of 
Marines on frigate '•Providence;" taken prisoner at 
Charleston, South Carolina, and on parole to close 
of war. 



1890. Hoppin, William Warner, 360 

Great-grandson of Captain Benjamin Hoppin (1747- 
1809), Lieutenant Rhode Island Militia. 1776; Cap- 
tain Rhode Island State Troops, 1776: Captain 2d 
Regiment Rhode Island Continental Infantry. 



1889. Hopson, Francis Johnstone, 

Great-grandson of Captain John Williamson. 1st Regi- 
ment South Carolina Continental Infantry. 



159 

Elected. Insignia. 

1890. HORNBLOWER, WlLLIAM BUTLER. 416 

Great-grandson of Josiah Hornblower, Speaker of Lower 
House (Assembly), Provincial Congress, New Jersey, 
1780; member of Upper House (Council), 1781-1784. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major Augustine Pease (1757- 
1791), Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Spencer. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Surgeon-General William 
Burnet (1730-1791), Surgeon 1st Battalion, 1st Estab- 
lishment, New Jersey Line, December S, 1775; Sur- 
geon 1st Battalion, 2d Establishment, November 28, 
1776 ; Surgeon 1st Regiment ; resigned, and appointed 
Surgeon-General for Eastern District Continental 
Army, 1781-1783. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Joseph Ailing, 
Essex County Militia, New Jersey, 1776. 

1889. Hosmer, James Ray, 332 

Great-grandson of Titus Hosmer (1736-1780), Speaker of 
Connecticut Assembly, 1773-80; Member of Con- 
tinental Congress, 1776-7: Judge United States Mari- 
time Court of Appeals, 1780, but died before entering 
upon his duties. 
Also, Great-grandson of Major-General Samuel Holden 
Parsons ( 1787), Colonel 10th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Continental Infantry, 1776; Brigadier-General 
Connecticut Army, 1776 ; Major-General Connecticut 
Army, 1780; retired, on account of ill health, 1782; 
in continuous active service from 1776 to 1782. 
Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Hawes, 
Captain Fairbanks' Company Massachusetts Militia, 
and representative to General Court, 1778-81. 

1889. Hotchkiss, Henry D., 

Great-grandson of Private Caleb Hotchkiss, Connecti- 
cut Militia, under General Spencer, in Rhode Island; 
killed in action at New Haven, July 5, 1779. 

1889. Hotchkiss, James F., 164 

Great-grandson of Private Caleb Hotchkiss, Connecti- 
cut Militia, under General Spencer, in Rhode Island ; 
killed in action at New Haven, July 5, 1779. 



160 



No. of 

Insignia. 



1891. Hotchkiss, Thomas Woodward, 

Great-great-grandson of Private Caleb Hotchkiss, Con- 
necticut Militia, killed in action at New Haven, July 
5, 1779 ; previously Private in Connecticut Militia, 
under General Spencer, in Rhode Island. 



1891. Hough, Alfred Lacey, Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. A. 

(retired), 727 

Grandson of Brigadier-General John Lacey (1755-1814), 
Captain 4th Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel 
Wayne, January 5, 1776, served in Canada; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Bucks County (Pennsylvania) Militia, 
May 6, 1777; Brigadier-General Pennsylvania Militia, 
January, 1778 ; Member of Supreme Executive Coun- 
cil of Pennsylvania, 1779-83. 

Also, Great-grandson of Colonel Thomas Reynolds 
(1729-1803), Colonel Burlington County (New Jersey) 
Militia, June 6, 1777; prisoner of war; paroled and 
exchanged for Colonel Simcoe, British Foot. 



1876. *Houghton, George Washington Wright (died April 
1, 1891), 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Jonathan Houghton, 
Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia. 



1887. Howell, Francis B., 

Great-grandson of Captain Joseph Howell, Captain in 
Colonel S. J. Atlee's Pennsylvania Musketry Bat- 
talion, March 15, 1776; captured at Battle of Long 
Island, August 27, 1776 ; exchanged December 9, 1776, 
for Captain Livingston ; Captain 2d Regiment Penn- 
sylvania Continental Infantry, Colonel De Haas, 
1777; Paymaster in same, August 27, 1778; Pay- 
master-General Continental Army, 1778. 



161 

No. of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1887. Howell, Henry W., 

Grandson of Captain Joseph Howell, Captain in Col- 
onel S. J. Atlee's Pennsylvania Musketry Battalion, 
March 15, 1776; captured at Battle of Long Island, 
August 27, 1776; exchanged December 9, 1776, for 
Captain Livingston; Captain 2d Regiment Penn- 
sylvania Continental Infantry, Colonel De Haas, 
1777; Paymaster in same, August 27, 1778; Pay- 
master-General Continental Army, 1778. 

1887. Howell, Henry W., Jr., 

Great-grandson of Captain Joseph Howell, Captain in 
Colonel S. J. Atlee's Pennsylvania Musketry Bat- 
talion, March 15, 1776; captured at Battle of Long 
Island, August 27, 1776 ; exchanged December 9, 1776, 
for Captain Livingston; Captain 2d Regiment Penn- 
sylvania Continental Infantry, Colonel De Haas, 
1777; Paymaster in same, August 27, 1778; Pay- 
master-General Continental Army, 1778. 

1891. Howell, Richard Lewis, 

Great-grandson of Major Richard Howell, Captain 5th 
Company 2d Battalion, 1st Establishment New Jer- 
sey Line, 1775 ; Brigade-Major, 1776 ; Major 2d Bat- 
talion 2d Establishment New Jersey Line, 1776; 
Major 2d Regiment New Jersey Line, 1777; resigned 
April 7, 1779. 

1885. Howell, Richard Stockton, 555 

Grandson of Major Richard Howell, Captain 5th Com- 
pany, 2d Battalion, 1st Establishment, New Jersey 
Line, 1775 ; Brigade-Major, 1776 ; Major 2d Battalion, 
2d Establishment, New Jersey Line, 1776 ; Major 2d 
Regiment New Jersey Line, 1777; resigned, April 7, 
1779. 

1891. Howland, Elijah Alvord, 

Great-grandson of Private Jonathan Fisher (1743- 
1777), Captain Jonathan Wales' Company Hampshire 
County (Massachusetts) Militia; died in service at 
Morristown, New Jersey, 1777. 



162 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia 

1891. Rowland, Henry Raymond, 

Great-grandson of Private Jonathan Fisher (1743-1777), 
Captain Jonathan Wales' Company, Hampshire 
County (Mass.) Militia, died in service at Morristown, 
N. J.,' 1777. 

1885. Hubbard, Grosvenor Silliman, 

Great-grandson of Brigadier-General Gold Selleck Silli- 
man (1732-1790), Colonel 4th Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, 1775; Colonel 1st Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, Wadsworth's Brigade, 1776; Colonel Con- 
necticut Light Horse Militia, 1776 ; Brigadier-General 
4th Brigade Connecticut Militia, 1776 ; resigned Janu- 
ary, 1781, but served continuously on alarms to 
close of war; captured, 1779; held prisoner on Long 
Island until exchanged for the Loyalist Judge Jones, 
January, 1782. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Governor Jonathan 
Trumbull, LL. D. (1710-1785), Governor of Connecti- 
cut, 1770-84. 

1890. Hubbell, Charles Bulkley, 528 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel David Rossiter 
(1732-1810), Captain in Colonel John Patterson's 
Regiment Berkshire County (Massachusetts) Militia, 
April, 1775; Lieutenant-Colonel in 2d Regiment 
Berkshire County Militia, Colonel Simonds. 

1891. Hull, George Huntington, 628 

Great-grandson of Private Solomon Lord ( 1815), 

4th Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel John Dur- 
kee, July 12, 1780. 

Also, Grandson of Titus Hull (1751 ), Private in 

Connecticut Volunteer Militia, 1776. 

1887. Humphreys, A. W., 

Great-grandson of Captain William Humphreys, Ad- 
jutant in Colonel Samuel Ashley's Regiment, New 
Hampshire, raised to relieve Ticonderoga, 1776: 
Captain 3d Regiment New Hampshire Continental 
Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Joshua Wingate, raised 
for Canadian service, 1776. 



163 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia, 

1888. Humphreys, Rev. Frank Landon, Mus. D., 62 

Great-grandson of Private Asher Humphreys (1759- 
1826), Captain Abel Pettibone's Company. Colonel 
Thomas Belden's Regiment, Connectient Militia, in 
service under Major-General Alexander McDougall 
in New York, in 1777. 

1890. HUNGERFORD, WlLLIAM ALLYN, 415 

Great-grandson of Corporal Christopher Merriam (1752- 
1838), 2d Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Charles 
Webb, July 27, 1780. 

1883. Huntington, Austin, 8 

Great-great-grandson of Major-General Jabez Hunting- 
ton (1719-1786), Member Connecticut Assembly, 
1775-7; 2d Major-General Connecticut Militia, 1776; 
1st Major-General Connecticut Militia, 1777; reth'ed 
1779, on account of ill health. 

1883. Huntington, Frederick Jabez, 

Great-great-grandson of Governor Jonathan Trumbull, 
LL. D. (1710-1785), Connecticut. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Jed- 
ediah Huntington (1745-1818), Colonel Connecticut 
Militia, 1775; Colonel 8th Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, 1775; Colonel 17th Regiment Connecticut 
Line, 1776 ; Colonel 1st Regiment Connecticut Line, 
1777; Brigadier-General Continental Army, 1777; in 
command of Connecticut Line throughout the war; 
retired with disbandment of the army, 1783, 

Also Great-great-grandson of Major-General Jabez 
Huntington (1719-1786), Member Connecticut Assem- 
bly, 1775-7; 2d Major-General Connecticut Militia, 
1776; 1st Major-General Connecticut Militia, 1777; 
retired 1779, on account of ill-health. 

1892. Huntington, Henry, 

Great-grandson of Benjamin Huntington (1736-1800),. 
Member of Connecticut Committee of Safety, 1775; 
Member of New Haven Convention for Regulating the 
Army, 1778 ; Member of Continental Congress, 1780-4.. 



164 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1885. Hurlburt, Percy Dakin, 189 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Farrer 
(1731-1783), Massachusetts Minute Men under Cap- 
tain William Smith, Colonel Abijah Pierce, "Lex- 
ington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Member Massachu- 
setts Provincial Congress, 1775. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Quartermaster Frederick 
Manson, Sergeant in Captain Prentice's Company, 
Colonel Thomas Marshall's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, 1776; Sergeant-Major Captain Joseph Fuller's 
Company, Colonel Samuel Bullard's Regiment Mas- 
sachusetts Militia, 1777; Quartermaster Colonel Ab- 
ner Perry's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, in 
$UJ|| service in Rhode Island, 1780. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Daniel Shays 
(1740-1825), Ensign Colonel Abijah Brown's Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Continental Infantry, 1775; 
Captain in 5th Regiment Massachusetts Continental 
Infantry, Colonel Rufus Putnam, 1777. 

1891. Hyatt, A. Jackson, 520 

Grandson of Lieutenant Abram Hyatt (1750-1821), 2d 
Lieutenant 4th Regiment New York Line, Colonel 
H. B. Livingston, November 21, 1776 ; 2d Lieutenant 
6th Company 2d Regiment New York Minute Men, 
Colonel Jacobus Swartwout, March 11, 1776 ; 1st 
Lieutenant 8th Company, Captain Jonathan Titus, 
4th Regiment New York Line, Colonel Livingston, 
November 9, 1777; Acting Adjutant, 1780. 

1.891. Hyatt, Abram Marshall, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Abram Hyatt (1750- 
1821), 2d Lieutenant 4th Regiment New York Line, 
Colonel H. B. Livingston, November 21, 1776; 2d 
Lieutenant 6th Company, 2d Regiment New York 
Minute Men, Colonel Jacobus Swartwout, March 11, 
1776; 1st Lieutenant 8th Company, Captain Jona- 
than Titus, 4th Regiment New York Line, Colonel 
Livingston, November 9, 1777; Acting Adjutant, 
1780. 



165 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1886. Imlay, Wessel Ten Broeck Stout, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant and Brevet Captain Wes- 
sel Ten Broeck Stout, 2d Lieutenant 4th Battalion 2d 
Establishment New Jersey Line, 1777 ; transferred to 
3d Battalion ; Ensign 3d Regiment New Jersey Line ; 
Lieutenant ditto, 1782; Lieutenant 1st Regiment 
New Jersey Line; discharged at close of war; Cap- 
tain by brevet. 

188G. Ingersoll, Rev. Edward P., D. D., 

Great-grandson of Sylvanus Dimmick, Privateersman, 
Falmouth, Massachusetts. 

1884. Ireland, John Busteed, 9 

Great-grandson of Brigade-Major Jonathan Lawrence, 
Brigade-Major Queens County Militia, New York, 
1775; Lieutenant in Colonel William Malcolm's Reg- 
iment "Additional Continental," 1777; Captain in 
Lieutenant-Colonel H. K. Van Rensselaer's Regiment 
New York Levies, 1779; Captain in Colonel John 
Harper's Regment New York Levies, in service of 
United States, 1780: Member New York Provincial 
Congress, 1776. 
Also, Great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Colonel 
1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York, 1775. 

1888. Ireland, John de Courcy, 

Great-great-grandson of Brigade-Major Jonathan Law- 
rence, Brigade-Major Queens County Militia, New 
York, 1775 ; Lieutenant in Colonel William Malcolm's 
Regiment " Additional Continental,'' 1777; Captain in 
Lieutenant-Colonel H. K. Van Rensselaer's Regiment 
New York Levies, 1779: Captain in Colonel John Har- 
per's Regiment New York Levies, in service of 
United States, 1780; Member New York Provincial 
Congress, 1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734- 
1S21), Signer of the Declaration of Independence, 
and Colonel 1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, 
New York, 1775. 



166 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Rob- 
ert Troup, Continental Army, New York. 

1888. Ireland, Robert Livingston, 

Great-gi*eat-grandson of Brigade-Major Jonathan Law- 
rence, Brigade-Major Queens County Militia, New 
York, 1775; Lieutenant in Colonel William Mal- 
colm's Regiment "Additional Continental," 1777; 
Captain in Lieutenant-Colonel H. K. Van Rensselaer's 
Regiment New York Levies, 1779; Captain in Col- 
onel John Harper's Regiment New York Levies, 
in service of United States, 1780; Member New 
Yoi'k Provincial Congress, 1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734- 
1821), Signer of the Declaration of Independence, 
and Colonel 1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, 
New York, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Rob- 
ert Troup, Continental Army, New York. 

1892. Irving, Alexander Duer, 

Great-grandson of Brigade-Major and Deputy Adjutant- 
General William Duer (1747-1799), appointed Bri- 
gade-Major and Deputy Adjutant-General New York 
Militia, July 27, 1775 ; Member of New York Provin- 
cial Congress. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Major-General William 
Alexander (Lord Stirling), (1726-1783); Colonel 1st 
Battalion, 1st Establishment, New Jersey Line, 
November 7, 1775 ; Brigadier-General Continental 
Army, March 11, 1776; Major-General Continental 
Army, February 19, 1777; taken prisoner at Battle 
of Long Island ; twice received the thanks of Con- 
gress for conspicuous service. 

1890. Isham, Charles, 403 

Great-grandson of Commissary Samuel Isham (1752- 

1827), Connecticut. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Cornelius 
Burhaus (1746-1827), Captain Van Beuren's Company, 
Colonel Wynkoop's Regiment New York Line. 



167 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Jackson, Ernest Henry, 205 

Great-grandson of Captain Stephen Jackson, New 

Jersey Militia. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Enos Beach, 

New Jersey Militia. 

1890. Jackson, Frank Watson, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Reverend Joseph Wheeler (1735- 
1793), Private in Captain Samuel Stone's Company, 
Colonel William Prescott's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775; Member 
of Massachusetts Provincial Congress. 

1890. Jackson, Frederic Wendell, 

Great-grandson of Reverend Joseph Wheeler (1735- 
1793), Private in Captain Samuel Stone's Company, 
Colonel William Prescott's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775; Member of 
Massachusetts Provincial Congress. 

1890. Jackson, John Day, 

Great-great-grandson of Major-General Oliver Wolcott 
(1726-1797), Colonel 17th Regiment Connecticut Mili- 
tia, 1775-6 ; Brigadier-General of 6th Brigade Con- 
necticut Militia, 1776; marched with Volunteers to 
reinforce General Gates at Saratoga, 1777; appointed 
Major-General Connecticut Militia, May, 1779; in 
service to close of war; Member of Council of State, 
1774-86; Member of Continental Congress, 1776-86; 
Signer of Declaration of Independence. 

1888. Jackson, Joseph C, 

Grandson of Major-General Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797), 
Colonel 17th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1775-6; 
Brigadier-General of 6th Brigade Connecticut Militia, 
1776; marched with Volunteers to reinforce General 
Gates at Saratoga, 1777; appointed Major-General 
Connecticut Militia, May, 1779 ; in service to close of 
war ; Member of Council of State, 1774-86 ; Member of 
Continental Congress, 1776-86; Signer of Declara- 
tion of Independence. 



168 

Xo. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Jackson, Joseph C, Jr., 42 

Great-grandson of Major-General Oliver Wolcott (1726- 
1797), Colonel 17th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
1775-6 ; Brigadier-General of 6th Brigade Connecticut 
Militia, 1776; marched with Volunteers to reinforce 
General Gates at Saratoga, 1777; appointed Major- 
General Connecticut Militia, May, 1779; in service to 
close of war ; Member of Council of State, 1774-86 ; 
Member of Continental Congress, 1776-86 ; Signer of 
Declaration of Independence. 



1891. Jackson, Oswald, 750 

Great-great-grandson of Charles Carroll of Carrollton 
(1737-1832), of Maryland, Signer of the Declaration 
of Independence. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Major Thomas Lloyd 
Moore (1759-1819), 1st Lieutenant in Captain Ru- 
dolph Bunner's Company, 2d Battalion Pennsylvania 
Continental Infantry, Colonel Arthur St. Clair; Cap- 
tain 3d Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Joseph 
Wood, May 21, 1776 ; Major 9th Regiment Pennsyl- 
vania Line, Colonel Irvine, May 12. 1779 ; Major 5th 
Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Richard But- 
ler, January 17, 1781, to January 1, 1783. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of William Moore 

( 1793), Member of Pennsylvania Council of 

Safety, 1776; Member of Pennsylvania Council of 
War, 1777; Vice-President of Supreme Executive 
Council of Pennsylvania, 1779-80; President, Cap- 
tain General and Commandex'-in-Chief of the Com- 
monwealth of Pennsylvania, 1781 ; Judge of the 
Court of Appeals, 1783. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Thomas Willing (1731- 
1821), President of Pennsylvania Provincial Congress, 
1774; Member of Continental Congress. 1775-6. 



1886. Jackson, William H., 362 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Lewis Covenhoven, Light 
Horse Monmouth County Militia, New Jersey. 



169 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia - 

1890. Jackson, William Henry, 414 

Great-grandson of Keverend Joseph Wheeler (1735- 
1793), Private in Captain Samuel Stone's Company, 
Colonel William Prescott's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775; Member of 
Massachusetts Provincial Congress. 

1891. J affray, Robert, Jr., 692 

Great-great-grandson of Dr. Samuel Mather, of Con- 
necticut, in medical service Connecticut Militia in New- 
Jersey, 1776 ; also Captain Connecticut Militia, 1776. 

1886. Jay, John Clarkson, M. D., 1& 

Great-grandson of John Jay (1745-1829), Member of 
Continental Congress, and President of same three 
years; prepared draft of Constitution of New York, 
1777, and appointed first Chief Justice under it ; Chair- 
man of New York Council of Safety ; Member of New 
York Provincial Congress; appointed Colonel of 2d 
Regiment New York City Militia, October 27, 1775. 

1887. Jay, William, 

Great-grandson of John Jay (1715-1829), Member of 
Continental Congress, and President of same three 
years ; prepared draft of Constitution of New York, 
1777, and appointed first Chief Justice under it; Chair- 
man of New York Council of Safety ; Member of New 
York Provincial Congress; appointed Colonel of 2d 
Regiment New York City Militia, October 27, 1775. 

1891. Jenkins, Edmund Fellows, 739 

Great-grandson of Brigadier-General John Fellows 
(1733-1808), Colonel of Berkshire County (Massachu- 
setts) Minute Men, 1775; Brigadier-General Massa- 
chusetts Militia, June 25, 1776. 

1892. Jennings, Albert Gould, 791 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Abraham 
Gould (1732-1777), Captain Connecticut Militia. 1775; 
Lieutenant-Colonel Connecticut Militia, 1777 ; killed 
in action at "Danbury Raid," April 25. 1777. 



170 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Johnson, Alexander Bryan, 

Great-grandson of Adjutant Volckert P. Douw, Lan- 
sing's Albany County Militia, and Vice-President 
First Provincial Congress. 



1889. Johnson, Bradish, Jr., 300 

Great-great-grandson of Brigade-Major Jonathan Law- 
rence, Brigade-Major Queens County Militia, 1775; 
Lieutenant in Colonel William Malcolm's Regiment 
' 'Additional Continental, " 1777 ; Captain in Lieutenant- 
Colonel H. K. Van Rensselaer's Regiment New York 
Levies, 1779 ; Captain in Colonel John Harper's Regi- 
ment New York Levies, in service of United States, 
1780 ; Member New York Provincial Congress, 1776. 

1889. Johnson, Francis Lewis, 

Great-grandson of Francis Lewis (1713-1803), Signer of 
the Declaration of Independence, New York. 

1891. Johnson, James Lewis, 691 

Great-grandson of Colonel James Johnson (1736-1809), 
Colonel of 2d Battalion Frederick County (Maryland) 
Militia, January 6, 1776. 

1891. Johnson, John Quincy Adams, 

Great-great-grandson of John Adams, of Massachusetts 
(1735-1826), Signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence. 

1890. Jones, Meredith Lewis, 

Great-grandson of Ensign John Benedict (1747-1810), 
Captain John Minthorn's Company (Florida and 
Warwick), Orange County Militia, Colonel John 
Hathorn, February 19, 1778. 

1888. Jordan, John Powers, 

Great-great-grandson of Private William Jordan, West- 
chester County Militia, New York. 



171 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1892. Keeler. David Bradley, Jr., 

Great-grandson of Colonel Philip Burr Bradley (1738- 
1821), Lieutenaut-Colonel in Colonel Waterbury's 
Regiment Connecticut State Troops, February, 1776; 
Colonel of Battalion Connecticut State Troops, Wads- 
worth's Brigade, May, 1776 ; Colonel of 5th Regiment 
Connecticut Line, January 1, 1777; retired by con- 
solidation, January, 1781. 

1889. Kelley, Frank Mumford, 305 

Great-grandson of Captain George Dominick (1730 ), 

14th Beat Company, 2d Regiment New York City 
Militia. Colonel John Jay, August 29, 1775. 

1889. Kellogg, Charles, 201 

Great-grandson of Captain Roger Welles (1751 ), 

2d Lieutenant in Colonel S. B. Webb's Regiment 
• Additional Continental," January 1, 1777; 1st Lieu- 
tenant same, May 16, 1778; Captain same, April 8, 
1780 ; Captain 3d Regiment Connecticut Line, 1781 ; 
wounded at Yorktown, October 14 ; Captain in Colonel 
S. B. Webb's Regiment, January, 1783; Captain in 
Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment, " final formation," 
June. 1783. 

1891. Kelso, James Sinclair, Jr.. 

Great-grandson of Private Leonard Fisher ( 1835), 

1st Battalion New York City Militia, Colonel John 
Lasher, 1776. 

1892. Kennedy, McPherson, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant John McPherson (1760- 
1829), Maryland Line. 

1887. Kent, Edward Henry, 220 

Great-grandson of Private Augustus Kent (1754 ), 

Private in Captain Elihu Kent's Company Suffield 
(Connecticut) Militia; marched to Boston, on "Lex- 
ington Alarm," at "Bunker Hill," and siege of Bos- 
ton, 1775 ; Private in Captain Simeon Sheldon's Com- 
pany Connecticut Militia, "New Haven Alarm," 1779. 



172 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. King, John Alsop, 120' 

Grandson of Major Rufus King (1755-1827), Aide-de- 

Camp to General Sullivan, New York. 
Also, Great-grandson of John Alsop, Member of Conti- 
nental Congress, New York. 

1891. King, Landreth Hezekiah, 

Great-grandson of Private Lemuel King (1765-1827), 
Lieutenant-Colonel Levi Wells' Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, wounded at Horse Neck, December 10, 1780. 

1891. King, Rufus, 

Grandson of Private Abraham Odell (1760-1820), Cap- 
tain Honeywell's Company Westchester County 
(New York) Militia, Colonel Van Bergen. 

1891. Knapp, H. K., 

Great-grandson of Reverend Samuel Spring, D. D. 
(1746-1819), joined the Continental Army as Chap- 
lain, 1775 ; accompanied the Expedition (Arnold's) to 
Quebec, and served through the Northern campaign. 
Also, Great-grandson of Ensign Jonathan Knapp (1754 

), Captain Gabriel Requa's Company, Colonel 

Joseph Drake's Regiment Westchester County Mili- 
itia, General Lewis Morris' Brigade, January 1. 1776. 

1887. Knapp, Shepherd (Life Member), 243 

Great-grandson of Rev. Samuel Spring, D. D. (1746- 
1819), joined the Continental Army as Chaplain, 
1775 ; accompanied the Expedition (Arnold's) to Que- 
bec, and served through the Northern Campaign. 
Also, Great-grandson of Ensign Jonathan Knapp (1754 

), Captain Gabriel Requa's Company, Colonel 

Joseph Drake's Regiment Westchester County Mili- 
tia, General Lewis Morris' Brigade. January 1, 1776. 

1886. Knickerbacker, Henry, 79 

Grandson of Colonel John Knickerbacker (1723-1802), 
14th Regiment Albany County Militia, New York. 

1887. Knight, Charles Huntoon, M. D., 158 

Great-grandson of Private Josiah Huntoon, Colonel 
Bellows' Regiment, New Hampsbire. 



173 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Laimbeer, Francis Effingham, 

Grandson of Private William Pinto. Connecticut Militia, 
" New Haven Alarm," 1781. 



1889. Laimbeer, John, Jr., 

Grandson of Private William Pinto, Connecticut Militia, 
''New Haven Alarm," 1781. 

1890. Lamberton, Charles Lytle, 595 

Grandson of Ensign William Harkness (1739-1822), 
Captain John Mateer's Company 3d Battalion Cum- 
berland County (Pennsylvania) Militia, Colonel 
William Chalmers, July 3, 1777. 

1889. Lane, Edward Van Zandt, 

Great-grandson of Private Jonathan Lane, Private 
in Captain Joshua Hayward's Company, Colonel 
David Gilman's New Hampshire Regiment, raised to 
reinforce the Continental Araiy at New York, Decem- 
ber 16, 1776; Private in Captain Goe's Company of 
Militia at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1779 ; Private 
in Captain Nute's Company New Hampshire Militia, 
Colonel Wentworth, September 27, 1779 ; Private in 
Captain Moses Leavitt's Company, Colonel Thomas 
Bartlett's Regiment New Hampshire Militia, July, 
1780. 

1889. Lane, Francis T. Luqueer, 

Great-grandson of Private Jonathan Lane, Private 
in Captain Joshua Hayward's Company, Colonel 
David Gilman's New Hampshire Regiment, raised to 
reinforce the Continental Army at New York, Decem- 
ber 16, 1776 : Private in Captain Goe's Company of 
Militia at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1779 ; Private 
in Captain Nute's Company New Hampshire Militia, 
Colonel Wentworth, September 27, 1779 ; Private in 
Captain Moses Leavitt's Company, Colonel Thomas 
Bartlett's Regiment New Hampshire Militia, July, 
1780. 



174 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Lane, Peter Van Zandt, 

Grandson of Private Jonathan Lane, Private in Cap- 
tain Joshua Hayward's Company, Colonel David 
Oilman's New Hampshire Regiment, raised to rein- 
force the Continental Army at New York, December 
16, 1776; Private in Captain Goe's Company of Mili- 
tia at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1779; Private in 
Captain Nute's Company New Hampshire Militia, 
Colonel Wentworth, September 27, 1779 ; Private in 
Captain Moses Leavitt's Company, Colonel Thomas 
Bartlett's Regiment New Hampshire Militia, July, 
1780. 



1890. Larned, Edwin Channing, 443 

Great-great-grandson of Governor William Greene 

(1731-1809), of Rhode Island. 
Also, Great-grandson of Major William Larned (1752- 
1828), Rhode Island Militia. 

1886. Lathrop, Francis, 140 
Great-grandson of Major-General Samuel Holden Par- 
sons ( 1787), Colonel 10th Regiment Connecticut 

Continental Infantry, 1776; Brigadier-General Con- 
necticut Army, 1776; Major-General Connecticut 
Army, 1780; retired on account of ill health, 1782; 
in continuous active service from 1776 to 1782. 

1889. *Lathrop, Francis H. (died November 15, 1891), 

Great grandson of Governor Richard Howley, Mem- 
ber Georgia Legislature, 1779 ; Governor of Georgia, 
1780; Member of Continental Congress, 1780-1. 

1886. Lathrop, George Parsons, 328 
Great-grandson of Major-General Samuel Holden Par- 
sons ( 1787), Colonel 10th Regiment Connecticut 

Continental Infantry, 1776; Brigadier-General Con- 
necticut Army, 1776; Majoi'-General Connecticut 
Army, 1780; retired on account of ill health, 1782; 
in continuous active service from 1776 to 1782. 



175 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Latting, Charles Percy, 510 

Great-grandson of Rev. Daniel Hopkins, D. D. (1734- 
1814), Chaplain 1st Massachusetts, Member 3d 
Massachusetts Provincial Congress, and Member 
Massachusetts Conventional Government, 1778. 

1890. Lawrance, John Fisher, 

Great-great-grandson of Brigade-Major Jonathan Law- 
rence, Brigade-Major Queens County Militia, New 
York, 1775 ; Lieutenant in Colonel William Malcolm's 
Regiment "Additional Continental," 1777; Cap- 
tain in Lieutenant-Colonel H. K. Van Rensselaer's 
Regiment New York Levies, 1779; Captain in Colonel 
John Harper's Regiment New York Levies, in service 
of United States, 1780; Member New York Provincial 
Congress, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Theophilus Morgan 
(1732-1788), Captain John Williams' Company, Con- 
necticut Militia; on duty at Fort Griswold, July 11, 
1779. 

1890. Lawrence, John, 336 

Great-grandson of Captain John Lawrence (1755-1844), 
4th Regiment Continental Establishment (New York), 
Colonel James Holmes, 1776; Company Paymaster, 
1777. 

1891. Leaming, James Rosebrugh, M. D., 615 

Great-grandson of Reverend James Rosebrugh (1714- 
1777) ; Chaplain 3d Regiment Northampton County 
(Pennsylvania) Militia, Colonel George Taylor, 1776; 
killed in action at Trenton, New Jersey, January 2, 
1777. 

1889. Lee, Benjamin Franklin, 

Great-grandson of Captain William Lawrence, New- 
town Militia, New York. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Riker (1743- 
1823), of Captain Daniel Lawrence's Troop of Light 
Horse, Queens County Militia, New York, and Mem- 
ber Queens County Council of Safety, 1776. 



176 

No. of 
Elected. Iusiguia. 

3891. Lee. Charles Carroll. M. D., 

Grandson of Governor Thomas Sim Lee (1745-1819), 
Member of Governor's Council and Maryland Legis- 
lature, 1777, and Governor of Maryland, 1779-1782; 
Major of Lower Battalion Prince George's County 
Militia, 1776 ; Member of Maryland Convention, 
1775-6. 

Also, Great-grandson of Charles Carroll of Carrollton 
(1757-1832), of Maryland, Signer of the Declaration 
of Independence. 

1889. Lee, William Henry Lawrence, 

Great-grandson of Captain William Lawrence, New- 
town Militia, New York. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Riker (1743- 
1823), of Captain Daniel Lawrence's Troop of Light 
Horse, Queens County Militia, New York, and Mem- 
ber Queens County Council of Safety, 1776. 

1885. Le Roy, Henry Wyckoff, 5 

Great-great-grandson of Captain John Nicoll, Colonel 
James Clinton's 2d Ulster County Regiment, New 
York. 

1891. Le Roy. Jacob Rutgers, 

Great-grandson of Captain Abraham George Claypoole 
(1756-1827), Ensign in 3d Battalion Philadelphia As- 
sociators, July 8, 1776 ; 1st Lieutenant in Lieutenant- 
Colonel John Patton's Regiment, January 14, 1777; 
Captain 11th Regiment Pennsylvania Line, June 10, 
1778; Captain 3d Regiment Pennsylvania Line, 
March 22, 1781. 

1890. Le Roy, Otis, 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Shubal Downs (1741- 
1796), Massachusetts Militia, 1781. 

1891. Leonard, Clarence Ettienne, 673 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General George God- 
frey (1721-1793), Brigadier-General Bristol County 
(Massachusetts) Militia, February 8, 1776 ; Member of 
Bristol County Committee of Safety. 



177 

No. of 
Insignia. 

Also. Great-grandson of Private John Godfrey (1754- 
1829), Private in Captain James Williams' Com- 
pany Taunton Militia, April 20, 1775; Ensign in Cap- 
tain Joshua Wil bore's Company, Colonel Ebenezer 
France's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 1776; En- 
sign same, September 23, 1776 ; 2d Lieutenant in 
Captain Matthew Randall's Company, Colonel John 
Daggett's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, January 1, 
1778 ; Private in 3d Company, Colonel Mitchell's 
Regiment Bristol County (Massacbusetts) Militia, 
August 12, 1780. 

Also, Great - great - gi'andson of Lieutenant Abijah 
Hodges. Jr., Lieutenant in 2d Company, Captain 
Jonathan Shaw, 3d Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
December, 1776 ; Sergeant in Captain Josiah Crocker's 
Company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's Regiment 
Massachusetts Militia, July, 1778, and August 2, 1780; 
served in Rhode Island. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of 1st Lieutenant Philip 

Leonard ( 1785), 1st Lieutenant of 1st Company 

Plymouth County (Massachusetts) Militia, June 6, 
1766 ; 1st Lieutenant 1st Regiment Plymouth County 
Militia, October 28, 1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Abner Pratt, 
Private in 3d Company Marshfield Militia, Captain 
Amos Wade, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; 
Private same Compa'-vj", under Colonel Cotton, Octo- 
ber 7, 1775 ; Private in Captain Elisha Mitchell's Com- 
pany, Colonel James Cary's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, April 12, 1776; Private in Captain Abi'am 
Washburn's Company, Colonel Edward Mitchell's 
Regiment Massachusetts Militia, to Bristol, Rhode 
Island, December 8, 1776 ; Private in Captain Joseph 
Keith's Company, Colonel Cotton's Regiment Militia, 
to Tiverton, Rhode Island, January 25, 1777; Cor- 
poral in Captain William Tupper's Company, Colonel 
Ebenezer Sprout's Regiment Militia, " Dartmouth 
Alarm," May and September, 1778; Sergeant in same 
Company, under Colonel Ebenezer White, to Rhode 
Island, July 22, 1780. 



178 



No. of 
Insignia. 



Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Ebenezer Wood 
(1735-1802), Private in Captain William Tupper's 
Company, Colonel Sprout's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, to Rhode Island, December 8, 1776 ; Private 
same, " Dartmouth Alarm," May and September, 1778 ; 
Private in Captain Ebenezer Battelle's Company, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Pierce's Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Militia, to Rhode Island, May 24, 1779. 

1889. Livingstone, Duncan Macra, 

Great-great-grandson of Walter Livingston, Deputy- 
Commissary-General and Member of 1st Provincial 
Congress, New York. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Admiral Count de Grasse 

( 1788), of France, appointed to command the 

French Fleet to co-operate with the American Army, 
1781. 

1883. Livingston, James Duane, 

Great-great-grandson of Robert Livingston ; gave the 
use of his foundry to the Continental Congress, New 
York. 

1891. Livingston, Lewis Howard, 500 

Great-great-grandson of Francis Lewis (1713-1803), 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, New 
York. 

1887. Livingston, Philip Livingston, 772 

Great-great-grandson of Philip Livingston (1716-1778), 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, New 
York. 

1888. Locke, Reverend Jesse Albert, 

Great-grandson of Private Simon Locke ( 1831), 

Colonel Senter's Rhode Island Regiment, August, 
1777. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Joseph Coolidge 
(1730-1775), Captain Barnard's Company of Water- 
town (Massachusetts) Militia; killed in action at Lex- 
ington, April 19, 1775. 



179 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1883. Lockwood, Howard, 188 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Simon Ingersoll, 4th 
Company, 1st Battalion Connecticut Militia, Colonel 
Silliman, raised to reinforce the Army at New York, 
1776. 

1888. Lockwood, Isaac Ferris, 

Great-grandson of Rev. William Lockwood ( 1828). 

Chaplain 1st Regiment Massachusetts Continental 
Infantry, Colonel Patterson. 

1884. Lockwood, James Betts, 128 

Great-grandson of Major Ebenezer Lockwood (1737 

), Major 2d Regiment Westchester County (New 

York) Militia, Colonel 'i nomas Thomas, 1775, re- 
appointed, 1778 ; Member 2d and 3d New York Pro- 
vincial Congress; Delegate Constitutional Conven- 
tion, 1777; and Member New York Assembly, 1778-9. 

1891. Lockwood, William Tompkins, 

Great grandson of Captain Joseph Lockwood, Jr. 
(1731-1792), 2d Regiment Westchester County Militia, 
Colonel Thomas Thomas, September 13, 1775. 

1892. Lord, Daniel, Jr., 780 

Great-great-grandson of Ensign Daniel Lord (1739- 
1796), Captain Joseph Jewett's Company Lyme (Con- 
necticut) Militia, " Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775. 

1892. Lord, Franklin Butler, 

Great-great-grandson of Ensign Daniel Lord (1739- 
1796), Captain Joseph Jewett's Company Lyme (Con- 
necticut) Militia, " Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775. 

1889. Love, Henry Morris, 239 

Great-great-grandson of Private Robert Love, Rhode 
Island Militia. 

1885. Luckey, Charles Clarence, 

Great-grandson of Private Jacob Hartshorn, Rhode 
Island Militia. 



180 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Lummis, Charles A., 97 

Great-grandson of Captain John Maxwell. 2d Regiment 
Hunterdon County Militia, New Jersey. 

1890. Lummis, William, 354 

Great-grandson of Captain John Maxwell, 2d Regiment 
Hunterdon County Militia, New Jersey. 

1890. Lynch, Eugene Tillotson, Jr., 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Thomas Tillotson, Mary- 
land Line, and 1st Lieutenant Queen Anne County 
Militia, Captain Kent, February 3, 1776. 

1889. Lyon, William Scott, 157 

Great-grandson of Daniel Hand (1744-1841,), Associ- 
ator, Suffolk County, New York. 

1889. Lyons, Crossman, 38 

Grandson of Corporal Jedediah Lyons, 1st Regiment 
Line, New Jersey. 



1890. McClellan, George Brinton, 488 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Samuel McClellan 
(1730-1807), Major 11th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
October 15, 1775 ; Lieutenant-Colonel of Connecticut 
Militia, December 2, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel 11th 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, December 27, 1776; 
Colonel of a Battalion Connecticut Militia, Septem- 
ber 25, 1777; Colonel 11th Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, January 23, 1779. 

1890. McClure, William, 

Great-grandson of Colonel George Gibson (1738-1791), 
Captain of 1st Battalion Virginia Militia, February 
2, 1776; later Colonel Virginia Continental Infantry. 



181 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia, 

1891. McGaw, John Woodbury, M. D., 

Great-great-great-grandson of Colonel Matthew Thorn- 
ton (1714-1803), Colonel New Hampshire Militia, 1775 T 
to close of war ; President of New Hampshire Pro- 
vincial Congress, 1775 ; Chairman of New Hampshire 
Committee of Safety, 1775-80 ; Chief -Justice of New 
Hampshire Court of Common Pleas, 1775-80; Mem- 
ber of Continental Congress, and Signer of the Dec- 
laration of Independence. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Peter Wood- 
bury, Private in Captain Benjamin Taylor's Company 
New Hampshire Militia, raised to reinforce Conti- 
nental Army at Winter Hill, December 8, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Private Josiah 
Woodbury, Private in Captain Dodge's Company 
Massachusetts Minute Men, "Lexington Alarm," 
April 19, 1775. 

1891. McKean, William Chambers, 

Great-grandson of Colonel David Chambers (1748- 
1842), Colonel of 3d Regiment Hunterdon County 
(New Jersey) Militia, June 19, 1776 ; Colonel of Bat- 
talion State Troops, November 27, 1776 ; Colonel 2d 
Regiment Hunterdon County Militia, September 9, 
1777 ; resigned May 28, 1779. 

1889. McKesson, George Clinton, 25" 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel William Hull, 
Captain-Lieutenant 2d Company 7th Regiment Con- 
necticut Line, Colonel Webb, July 6, 1775 ; promoted 
Captain in same, October 9, 1775 ; Captain 19th Regi- 
ment Continental Infantry, Colonel Charles Webb, 
1776; promoted Major 8th Regiment Massachusetts 
Continental Infantry, January 1, 1777; Lieutenant- 
Colonel of same, 1779. 

1891. McLenahan, George William, 680' 

Great-great-grandson of Major-General James Potter 
(1729-1789), Colonel Pennsylvania Militia, 1775; 
Brigadier-General Pennsylvania Militia, Apx*il 5, 1777; 
Major-General, 1782 ; Member of Pennsylvania Con- 
vention, 1776 ; Vice-President of Pennsvlvania. 1781. . 



182 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Macdonald, Pierre Fleming, 252 

Great-grandson of Major William Popham (1752-1847), 
entered the service as Lieutenant of Minute Men be- 
fore the formal organization of the regiments for 
the war; served in the Battle of Long Island; ap- 
pointed Aide-de-Camp to General James Clinton, 
1777; served with the Sullivan Expedition, 1779; 
subsequently transferred to the staff of Baron Steu- 
ben, with rank of Major. 



1891. Macdonough, George Hackstaff, 746 

Great-grandson of Major Thomas Macdonough ( 

1795), Major Delaware Continental Infantry, April, 
1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant William 
Denning (1740-1819), 2d Lieutenant 15th Beat Com- 
pany, Captain Henry Remsen, New York "Inde- 
pendents," 1775; Member of New York Provincial 
^Congress, 1776. 



1886. Malcolm, Philip Schuyler, 

Great-grandson of Colonel William Malcolm (1732- 
1792), Major 2d Battalion New York City Militia, 
1776; Colonel 2d Regiment New York Volunteer 
Infantry, 1776; Colonel "Additional" Regiment 
Continental Infantry, 1777-9, Continental Adjutant- 
General of the Northern Department, 1780; Colonel 
1st Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry Levies, 
1780-1 ; and Member New York Provincial Congress, 
1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major-General Philip Schuyler 
(1733-1804), Major-General Continental Army, 1775; 
resigned, 1779; Delegate to Continental Congress, 
1775-7; Member New York Provincial Congress, 
1778-9; Member New York State Senate, 1781-4. 



183 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia, 

1890. Mandeville, Henry, 

Son of Private Henry H. Mandeville (1760-1847), Pri- 
vate New Jersey Militia under Captain Jonas Ward, 
November, 1776; Private in Captain Ogden's Com- 
pany New Jersey Militia, January, 1777; Private in 
Lieutenant Anthony Mandeville's Company New 
Jersey Militia, December, 1778; Private in Captain 
Mmard's Company New Jersey Militia. 177'.); also 
served in New Jersey Militia, 1779-81. 

1890. Mandeville, Henry Clay, 597 

Grandson of Private Henry H. Mandeville (1760-1847), 
Private New Jersey Militia under Captain Jonas 
Ward, November, 1776 ; Private in Captain Ogden's 
Company New Jersey Militia, January 17, 1777; 
Private in Lieutenant Anthony Mandeville's Com- 
pany New Jersey Militia, December, 177S ; Private in 
Captain Miiiard's Company New Jersey Militia, 1779: 
also served in New Jersey Militia, 1779-81. 

1889. Mann, Samuel Vernon, 

Great-great-grandson of William Vernon (1719-1806), 
President of Naval Board, Rhode Island. 

1891. Manson, Thomas Lincoln, Jr., 

Great-grandson of Private Nehemiah Manson (1761- 
1832), Private in Capain Heyward Purvis' Company, 
Colonel Theophilus Cotton's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, on Expedition to Rhode Island, September, 
1777; Seaman on ship " Warren," Commander Sal- 
tonstall, on the Penobscot, June, 1779 ; served under 
Captain Calvin Curtiss at Warren and Bristol Ferry, 
1779 ; volunteered for six months under Captain 
Jonathan Turner, on duty around New York, 1780 ; 
served under Captain William Barker at Butt's Hill, 
Rhode Island, 1781; volunteered for three years 
under Captain Jonathan Turner, in Colonel Tupper's 
Continental Regiment, November, 1781; transferred 
to Colonel Marshall's Massachusetts Regiment; 
afterwards detailed for service in the Commander-in- 
Chief 's barges ; honorably discharged, December, 1783. 



184 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1883. Marsh, Charles Baumann, 

Great-grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 
Sebastian Bauman ( 1803), 2d Regiment Conti- 
nental Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb. 

1891. Marshall, Henry Rutgers, 

Great -great -grandson of Colonel Charles DeWitt 
(1727-1787), Colonel Northern Regiment of Minute 
Men Ulster County, December 27, 1775; Chairman 
of Ulster County Convention, 1775; Member of New 
York Provincial Congress, 1775-7; Member of New 
York State Assembly, 1781-5. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Peter Tappan, 
2d Lieutenant 2d Regiment Continental Corps of 
Artillery, Colonel Lamb, August 21, 1781. 

Also. Great-great-grandson of Major Christopher Tap- 
pan. Northern Regiment Minute Men, Ulster County, 
New York. Colonel Charles DeWitt, December 21, 1775, 
and Member of New York Provincial Congress, 1775. 

1891. Marshall, Howard, 

Great-great-grandson of Ensign Sylvanus Marshall 
(1746-1833), 2d Lieutenant in Captain Jesse Bell's 
Company, 1st Battalion Connecticut State Troops, 
Colonel Whiting, 1776; Ensign in Captain Abraham 
Mead's Company, 9th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Lieutenant-Colonel John Mead, August 13, 1776; 
Lieutenant in Captain Sylvanus Mead's Company of 
Rangers, 1777: Captain of Rangers, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Surgeon Isaac Smith, 
Connecticut Militia. 

1890. Marshall, John Gilbert, 329 

Great-grandson of Ensign Sylvanus Marshall (1746- 
1833), 2d Lieutenant in Captain Jesse Bell's Com- 
pany, 1st Battalion Connecticut State Troops, Colonel 
Whiting, 1776; Ensign in Captain Abraham Mead's 
Company, 9th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel John Mead, August 13, 1776; Lieu- 
tenant in Captain Sylvanus Mead's Company of 
Rangers, 1777; Captain of Rangers, 1781. 
Also, Great-grandson of Surgeon Isaac Smith, Con- 
necticut Militia. 



185 

No. of 
Elected. fasi ^ ia - 

1889. Martin, Charles Boman, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Vail, 2d Lieu- 
tenant in Colonel Drake's and Van Cortlandt's Regi- 
ment (3d or Manor of Van Cortlandt), in active ser- 
vice from August 15, 1778, to November 20, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Gilbert T. Vail, 
Orange County Militia, killed at Minisink Massacre, 
July 22, 1779. 

1889. Martin, William Irwin, 89 

Great-grandson of Private William Martin (1757-1824), 
Private Middlesex County (New Jersey) Militia, 1776 ; 
Private Captain Abraham Lyons' Company, 4th 
Battalion, 2d Establishment, New Jersey Line, Feb- 
ruary, 1777; transferred to Captain Richard Cox's 
Company, 3d Battalion; served also in 1st Battalion, 
New Jersey Line; assigned for duty in the "Com- 
mander-in-Chief's Guard," 1780, where he remained 
until close of the war. 

1888. Martin, William Vail, 155 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Vail, 2d Lieu- 
tenant in Colonel Drake's and Van Cortlandt's Regi- 
ment (3d or Manor of Van Cortlandt), in active ser- 
vice from August 15, 1778, to November 20, 1781. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Gilbert T. Vail, 
Orange County Militia, killed at Minisink Massacre, 
July 22, 1779. 

1891. Mathewson, Arthur, M. D., 539 

Great-grandson of William Williams (1731-1811) of 
Connecticut, Signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, and Colonel 12th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
May, 1775. 
Also, Great-grandson of Colonel Samuel McClellan 
(1730-1807), Major 11th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
October 15, 1775 ; Lieutenant- Colonel of Connecticut 
Militia, December 2, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel 11th 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, December 27, 1776: 
Colonel of a Battalion Connecticut Militia, September 
25, 1777; Colonel 11th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
January 23, 1779. 



186 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

Also, Great - great - grandson of Governor Jonathan 
Trumbull, LL. D. (1710-1785), Connecticut. 

1890. Maynard, George Willoughby, 423 

Great-grandson of Corporal Lemuel Maynard (1739- 
1808), Captain James Horsley's Company, Colonel 
William Prescott's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
''Lexington Alarm,'' April 19, 1775. 
Also, Grandson of Fifer Moses Doty (1758-1823), Fifer 
in Captain Billings' Company, Colonel Learned's 
Regiment Massachusetts Militia, October 7, 1775; 
Fifer in Captain Morse's Company, Massachusetts 
Continental Infantry, Colonel Putnam, March 1, 1777. 

1890. Mead, Walter H. (Life Member), 484 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew 
Mead, Captain 5th Company, 5th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Line, Colonel David Waterbury, May 1, 1775; 
served in Canada, and wounded near St. Johns, 
September 6, 1775 ; Major 1st Battalion Connecticut 
Militia, Colonel Silliman, June 20, 1776; Captain 9th 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel 
John Mead, August 16, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel 5th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Philip B. Brad- 
ley, January 1, 1777. 

1888. Meigs, Charles A., 

Grandson of Lieutenant John Meigs, Ensign in Colonel 
S. B. Webb's Regiment "Additional Continental," 
January 1, 1777; Adjutant same, April 22, 1778; Lieu- 
tenant same, May 16, 1778; Adjutant 3d Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel S. B. Webb, January, 
1781 ; served to close of war. 

1891. Melville, Henry, 

Great-grandson of Private Josiah (Melville) Melvin, Jr. 
(1758-1818), Private in Captain Hancock's Company 
of 15th Division Six Months' Men, Concord Militia; 
served with Continental Army in New York, July 14, 
1780. 



187 

No. of 
Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Josiah Melvin 
(1727-1809), Private in Concord Militia at Ticon- 
deroga, 1776 ; Private in Captain Abisha Brown's 
Company Concord Militia, 1777. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Jonas Minot, 
Concord Minute Men, eight months' service, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private James Nesmith, 
Jr. (1718-1793), Private in Captain John Reid's Com- 
pany, Colonel John Stark's Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Militia, May 4, 1775 ; Private in Captain 
Samuel McConnel's Company, Colonel David Gil- 
man's Regiment New Hampshire Militia in Conti- 
nental Service, December 16, 1776 ; Private in 8th 
Regiment New Hampshire Continental Infantry, 1778. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Sergeant Adam 
Dickey (1722 ), Private in Captain Daniel Rey- 
nolds' Company, Colonel Moses Nichol's Regiment, 
Stark's Brigade New Hampshire Militia, ' ' Benning- 
ton Campaign," July 14 to September 29, 1780; Ser- 
geant in Captain William Boyes' Company, Colonel 
Daniel Reynolds' Regiment New Hampshire Militia, 
September 15, 1781. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Reuben Gregg (1756- 
1840), Private in Captain Peter Clark's Company, 
Colonel Stickney's Regiment, Stark's Brigade New 
Hampshire Militia, 1777; Private in Captain William 
Boyes' Company, Colonel Moses Kelley's Regiment 
New Hampshire Militia, 1778; served in Expedition 
to Rhode Island. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Hugh Gregg, 
Private in Captain Philip Thomas' Company, Col- 
onel James Reed's Regiment New Hampshire Militia, 
1775 ; Private in Captain Joseph Parker's Company, 
Colonel Enoch Hale's Regiment New Hampshire 
Militia, 1776 ; joined the Northern Army at Ticon- 
deroga; Private in Captain John Taggart's Company, 
Colonel Thomas Heald's Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers for relief of Ticonderoga, 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Josiah Whitney, Jr. 

(1753 ), Private in Minute Men from Harvard, 

"Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Private in 
Captain Manasseh Sawyer's Company, Colonel 
Dikes' Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 1776. 



188 



No. of 
Insignia. 



Also, Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Josiah 
Whitney, Sr. (1730-1806), one of the "Boston Tea 
Party," December 16, 1773; at "Concord," April 19, 
1775 ; Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel Asa Whitcornb's 
Regiment Massachusetts Militia, at "Bunker Hill" 
and seige of Boston, April to December, 1775; Col- 
onel of Massachusetts Militia, January to April, 
1776; Colonel of "Colony" Regiment, raised to for- 
tify the town and harbor of Boston, April, 1776, to 
January, 1777; Colonel of 2d Regiment Worcester 
County Militia, on "Rhode Island Alarm," July, 
1777; "Bennington Alarm," August, 1777; at "Sara- 
toga," September and October, 1777; later Brigadier- 
General of Massachusetts Militia; Member of 
Massachusetts General Court, 1780; Member of 
Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1778. 

1883. *Merchant, John (died July 7, 1886), 

Great-grandson of John Hicks, Massacbusetts Minute 

Men, killed in action at Lexington, April 19, 1775. 
Also, Grandson of Private Abel Merchant, Dutchess 

County Militia, New York. 

1890. Meredith, William Tuckey, 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General John Morin 
Scott (1730-1784). Brigadier - General New York 
Militia, June, 1776; Member New York Provincial 
Congress, 1776; Secretary of State for New York; 
Member of New York Constitutional Convention: 
Member of Continental Congress, 1782-3. 

1892. Merritt, Charles, 800 

Grandson of Private Ebenezer Merritt (1764-1826), 
served four months in team service under Captain 
Samuel Taylor, Connecticut Militia, 1778; Private in 
Captain Eliphalet Thorp's Company, Colonel Samuel 
Whiting's Regiment Connecticut Militia, April 1, 
1779 ; later Private in Captain Paul Brigham's Com- 
pany, 8th Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Giles 
Russell. 



189 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Merritt. Douglass. 571 

Great-great-grandson of Major Aza Douglass (1715- 
17921. Captain 1st Company 17th Regiment Albany 
County (New York) Militia, Colonel Bradford Whit- 
ing; promoted 1st Major in same, June 16, 1778. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel David Suther- 
land (1722-1794), Colonel 6th Regiment, Charlotte 
Precinct, Dutchess County (New York) Militia. Octo- 
ber 17, 1775. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Ezra Thompson 
(1738-1816). Captain BrinckerhofF s Company, 2d 
Regiment Dutchess County Militia. 1776. 



1888. Merwin, Augustus W.. 129 

Great-grandson of Captain Timothy Taylor, Sergeant 
9th Company, Captain Beardsley, 5th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel Waterbury, May 9 to Decem- 
ber 11. 1775 ; Ensign Captain Noble Benedict's Com- 
pany, Bradley's Battalion, Wadswoi'th's Brigade, Con- 
necticut Militia, May, 1776 ; captured at Fort Wash- 
ington, November 16, 1776 ; Lieutenant 2d Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel Charles Webb, September 
1, 1777; 2d Lieutenant in Meigs' Light Infantry, 2d 
Battalion. July, 1779, engaged at Stony Point; Cap- 
tain 3d Regiment Connecticut Line. Colonel S. B. 
Webb, December 17, 1781 ; Captain 2d Regiment Con- 
necticut Line, Colonel Heman Swift, January, 1783; 
Captain in Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment, "final 
formation." June. 1783. 



1891. Merwin, Berkley R.. 743 

Great-grandson of Private Thomas Painter, 5th Com- 
pany, Captain Jonas Prentice, 5th Battalion, Colonel 
William Douglass, Wadsworth's Brigade Connecticut 
State Troops, raised to reinforce Washington's Army 
at New York, 1776. 



190 

No, of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. *Merwin, Rev. Samuel J. M. (died September 12, 1888), 
Grandson of Captain Timothy Taylor, Sergeant 9th 
Company, Captain Beardsley, 5th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel Waterbury, May 9 to Decem- 
ber 11, 1775 ; Ensign Captain Noble Benedict's Com- 
pany, Bradley's Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, 
Connecticut Militia, May, 1776; captured at Fort 
Washington, November 16, 1776 ; Lieutenant 2d Regi- 
ment Connecticut Line, Colonel Charles Webb, Sep- 
tember 1, 1777; 2d Lieutenant Meigs' Light Infantry, 
2d Battalion, July, 1779, engaged at Stony Point; 
Captain 3d Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel S. 
B. Webb, December 17, 1781; Captain 2d Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel Heman Swift, January, 
1783; Captain in Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment, 
"final formation," June, 1783. 

1891. Metcalf, James Bktts, 728 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel James Met- 
calf (1729-1803). 2d Major of West Regiment Massa- 
setts Minute Men, April 19, 1775, at " Lexington ;" 
Captain 13th Regiment Continental Foot, Colonel 
Joseph Read, January 30, 1776, at siege of Boston; 
1st Major 4th Regiment Suffolk County (Massachu- 
setts) Militia, Colonel Ephraim Wheelock, February 
10, 1776 ; Major commanding 4th Regiment Suffolk 
County Militia, December 8, 1776, served in Rhode 
Island ; Lieutenant-Colonel same, 1779 ; served to 
close of war. 
Also, Great-grandson of Sergeant James Metcalf, Jr. 
(1757-1843), Bombardier in 9th Company, Captain 
Perez Cushing, Colonel Thomas Craft's Regiment 
Massachusetts State Artillery, September 9, 1776, in 
Continental service in Boston Harbor and sea coast 
defences; Private in Captain Asa Fairbank's Com- 
pany, Colonel Benjamin Hawes' Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Volunteer Infantry, September 30, 1777; 
served in Rhode Island under Major-General Spen- 
cer; Sergeant in Captain John Metcalf 's Company, 
4th Regiment Suffolk County Militia, Colonel Seth 
Bullard, January 27, 1780; served in Rhode Island 
under Major-General J. M. Varnum. 



191 

No. of 
Elected. ■ Insignia. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Uriah Betts (1761- 
1841), Captain Nathan Gilbert's Company, Colonel 
Samuel Whiting's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
October 5, 1777; served with Continental Army ou 
the Hudson. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain Selah Benton (1740- 
1812), Private 9th Company, 7th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Continental Infantry, July 10, 1775 ; 2d Sergeant 
9th Company, 7th Regiment Connecticut Continental 
Infantry, October 30, 1775; Ensign 19th Regiment 
Connecticut Continental Infantry, Colonel Charles 
Webb, January 1, 1776; 2d Lieutenant in same, 
August 10, 1776 ; served at Boston and around New- 
York; 2d Lieutenant 8th Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Colonel John Chandler, January 1, 1777; 1st 
Lieutenant in same, January 16, 1778; Captain in 
same, October 28, 1779: Captain in 5th Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Sherman, 
January 1, 1781 ; Captain in 1st Regiment Connecti- 
cut Line, Colonel Zebulon Butler, January 1, 1783; 
served to close of war. 

1889. MlDDLEBROOK, GEORGE STANLEY, 296 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Ephraim Middle- 
brook (1736-77), Connecticut Militia, killed in action 
at Ridgefield, Connecticut, April 27, 1777, while in 
command of his company ; also served in the New 
York campaign, 1776. 

1888. Miller. Charles Benjamin, 

Great-grandson of Fifer James Miller ( 1788), Ar- 
tillery Regiment (Colonel Robert Elliott), Rhode 
Island State Brigade in Continental Service. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Asa Todd (1756-1847), 
Captain Phineas Porter's Company, 1st Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel David Wooster. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas 
Weeks (1735-1817), Captain Josiah Smith's Company, 
Colonel Whitney's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
and Adjutant Massachusetts Line, Colonel David 
Brewer. 



192 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Miller, Edward Clarence, 

Great-grandson of Fifer James Miller ( 1788), 

Captain Pittman's Company, Colonel Elliott's Regi- 
ment Artillery, Rhode Island State Troops. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Asa Todd (1756-1847), 
Captain Phineas Porter's Company, 1st Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel David Wooster. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas 
Weeks (1735-1817), Captain Josiah Smith's Company, 
Colonel Whitney's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
and Adjutant Massachusetts Line, Colonel David 
Brewer. 

1888. Miller, George Ernest, 

Great-grandson of Fifer James Miller ( 1788), 

Artillery Regiment (Colonel Robert Elliott), Rhode 
Island State Brigade in Continental Service. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Asa Todd (1756-1847), 
Captain Phineas Porter's Company, 1st Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel Daniel Wooster. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas 
Weeks (1735-1817), Captain Josiah Smith's Company, 
Colonel Whitney's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
and Adjutant Massachusetts Line, Colonel David 
Brewer. 

1891. Miller, George Perkins (Life Member), 651 

Great-great-grandson of Surgeon Matthias Burnet Mil- 
ler (1749-1792), Colonel David Sutherland's Regiment 
New York State Militia, and Member of New York 
Provincial Congress. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Jon- 
athan Forman, 1st Lieutenant in Captain Burrowes' 
Company, 1st Regiment Monmouth County (New 
Jersey) Militia, 1776; promoted Captain same Regi- 
ment, June 16, 1776 ; Captain 4th Battalion 2d Estab- 
lishment, New Jersey Line, November 23, 1776; 
Captain 1st Regiment New Jersey Line, Colonel 
Matthias Ogden, September 26, 1780 ; Major 3d Regi- 
ment New Jersey Line, November 21, 1781 ; Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel 2d Regiment New Jersey Line, February 
11, 1783. 



193 



No. of 

Insignia, 



Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Moses Seymour, 
Captain 5th Regiment Connecticut Light Horse Mili- 
tia, Major Elisha Sheldon, 1776 ; Captain Connecticut 
Militia, serving under General Gates to the North- 
ward, 1777; Captain Connecticut Light Dragoons, 
" New Haven Alarm," July, 1779. 

1883. Miller, J. Bleecker, 241 

Great-great-grandson of James Duane, Member of Con- 
tinental Congress, New York. 

1890. Miller, Thomas Porter, 

Grandson of Fifer James Miller ( 1788), Artillery 

Regiment, Colonel Robert Elliott, Rhode Island State 
Brigade in Continental service. 

Also, Grandson of Private Asa Todd (1756-1847), 
Captain Phineas Porter's Company, 1st Regiment 
Connecticut Line, Colonel David Wooster. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Weeks 
(1735-1817), Captain Josiah Smith's Company, Col- 
onel Whitney's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, and 
Adjutant Massachusetts Line, Colonel David Brewer. 

1891. Mills, Charles Hood, 

Great-grandson of Private George Mills (1754-1826), 
Captain Hubbard's Company Massachusetts Militia, 
1776 ; went with Arnold's Expedition to Quebec ; 
captured; exchanged 1777; later, Pi'ivate Captain 
Webster's Company, Colonel Fellows" Regiment 
Massachusetts Militia. 

1891. Mills, Isaac Newton, 

Great-grandson of Private Nathaniel Mills (1742-1814), 
Private in Lieutenant Paine Converse's Company, 
11th Regiment Connecticvit Militia, 1776. 

1889. Mitchell, William Anderson, 269 

Great-great-grandson of Rev. Josiah Sherman ( 1789), 

Chaplain of 7th Regiment Connecticut Continental 
Infantry, Colonel Heman Swift, January 1, 1777. 



194 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Mix, James B., 227 

Great-great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Timothy Mix, 
Private in Captain Hooker's Company, 2d Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, Colonel Joseph Spencer, May 6, 
1775, served during seige of Boston and on Arnold's 
expedition to Quebec ; Sergeant 2d Regiment Con- 
tinental Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, April 19, 
1777 ; promoted 2d Lieutenant same, September 12. 
1778. 

1791. Montague, Frank L., 702 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Caleb Montague 
(1731-1782), Sergeant in Captain Noadiah Leonard's 
Company, Colonel Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge's 
Regiment Massachusetts Militia, " Lexington Alarm," 
April 19, 1775; Captain in Hampshire County Militia, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Williams, May 10, 1776. 

1890. Montgomery. Henry Eglinton, 

Great-grandson of Sui'geon Thomas Tillotson, Mary- 
land Line, and 1st Lieutenant Queen Anne County 
Militia, Captain Kent, February 3, 1776. 

1890. Montgomery, James Lynch, 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Thomas Tillotson, Mary- 
land Line, and 1st Lieutenant Queen Anne County 
Militia, Captain Kent, February 3, 1776. 

1883. Montgomery, James Mortimer. 2 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel William Malcolm, 
(1732-1792), Major 2d Battalion New York City 
Militia, 1776 ; Colonel 2d Regiment New York Vol- 
unteer Infantry, 1776 : Colonel " Additional" Regi- 
ment Continental Infantry, 1777-9 ; Continental 
Adjutant General of the Northern Department, 1780; 
Colonel 1st Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry 
Levies, 1780-1 ; and Member New York Provincial 
Congress 1776. 
Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Colonel William 
Henry (1727-1793), County Lieutenant, Philadelphia 
County, Pennsylvania, 1777-90. 



195 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Commissary George 

Henry (1751-1790), Continental Navy, Pennsylvania, 

and Member of Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse. 



1886. Montgomery, Richard Malcolm, 75 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel William Malcolm 
(1732-1792), Major 2d Battalion New York City Mili- 
tia, 1776 ; Colonel 2d Regiment New York Volunteer 
Infantry, 1776 ; Colonel " Additional " Regiment Con- 
tinental Infantry, 1777-9; Continental Adjutant- 
General of the Northern Department, 1780; Colonel 
1st Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry Levies, 
1780-1 ; and Member New York Provincial Congress, 
1776. 
Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Colonel William 
Henry (1727-1793), County-Lieutenant, Philadelphia 
County, Pennsylvania, 1777-90. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Commissary George 
Henry (1751-1790), Continental Navy, Pennsylvania, 
and Member of Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse., 

1889. Moody, Edward Francis (of Massachusetts), ISO 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Paul Moody (1743-1842), 
Captain Jacob Gerrish's Company, Colonel Moses 
Little's Regiment, Massachusetts State Troops, "Lex- 
ington Alarm," April 19, 1775; wounded at the Bat- 
tle of Bunker Hill. 

1891. Moorhead, Horace R., 700 

Great-grandson of Captain Fergus Moorhead (1742- 
1821), Captain Westmoreland County (Pennsylvania) 
Militia, 1777; taken prisoner at Blanket Hill; con- 
fined at Quebec eleven months. 

1891. Moorhead, John. Jr., ' 675 

Great-grandson of Captain Fergus Moorhead (1742- 
1821), Captain Westmoreland County (Pennsylvania) 
Militia, 1777; taken prisoner at Blanket Hill; con- 
fined at Quebec eleven months. 



196 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1886. Morfit, Clarence, 196 

Grandson of Lieutenant Henry Morfit ( 1794), 1st 

Lieutenant 7th Company Bucks County (Pennsyl- 
vania) Militia, 5th Battalion. Colonel Joseph Mcll- 
vaine, May 6, 1777; later Lieutenant Pennsylvania 
Line; taken prisoner February 19, 1778, and re- 
leased at close of war. 



1890. Morgan, Appleton, 401 

Grandson of Major Abner Morgan (1748-1837), Major 
in Colonel Elisha Porter's Regiment of Berkshire 
and Hampshire Counties, Massachussets, raised to 
I'einforce the Continental Army in Canada, January 
9, 1776; and Chairman of Massachusetts Committee 
of Safety ; Member of Massachusetts General Court, 
1775. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private David Morgan (1745 

), Private in Captain Joseph Hoar's Company, 

Colonel Gideon Burt's Regiment Massachusetts Mili- 
tia, June 16, 1782. 



1886. Morgan, Reverend Brockholst, 12 

Great-great-grandson of Governor and Brigadier-Gen- 
eral William Livingston (1723-1790), Brigadier-Gen- 
eral New Jersey Militia, October 28, 1775 ; Governor 
of New Jersey, 1776-90; also Member of Continental 
Congress. 

Also, Great-grandson of Colonel Jacob Morgan, Jr. 
1 1 74?- 1802), Major 1st Battalion Philadelphia Asso- 
ciators, 1775; Colonel of same, 1777; Colonel 2d Bat- 
talion Philadelphia County Militia, 1777. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel Jacob Morgan, 
St'. (1716-1792), Member of Provincial Congress, 
1776 ; Member of the Council of Safety of Pennsyl- 
vania; Member of Pennsylvania Supreme Executive 
Council; Assistant Forage Master Pennsylvania 
Militia, April, 1780. 



197 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Morgan, Edwin Denison, 504 

Great -great -grandson of Corporal William Avery- 
Morgan (1754-1842), Corporal in Captain Spicer's 
Company 6th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel 
S. H. Parsons, May 9, 1775; Corporal in Captain Gal- 
l.;p's Company 8th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Smith, September 8, 1776. 
Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Sergeant Christo- 
pher Avery, 27th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
killed in action at Fort Griswold, Connecticut, Sep- 
tember 6, 1781. 



1889. Morgan, James Henry, 90 

Great-grandson of Corporal William Avery Morgan 
(1754-1842), Corporal in Captain Spicer's Company 
6th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel S. H. 
Parsons, May 9, 1775; Corporal in Captain Gallup's 
Company 8th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Oliver Smith, September 8, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Jonathan Gardnor, 
Captain Nehemiah Waterman's Company, 20th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Major Benjamin Leffmgwell. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Christopher 
Avery, 27th Regiment Connecticut Militia, killed 
in action at Fort Griswold, Connecticut, September 
6, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Joseph Church- 
ill (1734 ), Captain 8th Company, 3d Battalion, 

Colonel Comfort Sage, Wadsworth's Brigade Con- 
necticut State Troops, June, 1776, to December 25, 
1776; served with the Continental Army in New 
York City and on Long Island. 

1891. Morgan, Junius Spencer, 599 

Great-great-grandson of Corpoi*al William Avery Mor- 
gan (1754-1 842), Corporal in Captain Spicer's Com- 
pany, 6th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel S. 
H. Parsons, May 9, 1775; Corporal in Captain Gal- 
lup's Company, 8th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Smith, September 8, 1776. 



198 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

Also, Great - great - great - great - grandson of Sergeant 
Christopher Avery, 27th Regiment Connecticut Mili- 
tia, killed in action at Fort Griswold, Connecticut, 
September 6, 1781. 

1888. Morris, Dwight, 

Son of Captain and Brevet Major James Morris, Ensign 
5th Company 2d Regiment, Colonel Fisher Gay, 
Connecticut Militia, June, 1776; 1st Lieutenant 5th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Philip B. Brad- 
ley, January 1, 1777; taken prisoner at German- 
town, October 4, 1777; exchanged January 3, 1781; 
promoted Captain-Lieutenant, July 29, 1780; pro- 
moted Captain, August 22, 1780 ; Captain 2d Regi- 
ment Connecticut Line, Colonel Heman Swift, 1781 ; 
Captain in Colonel ScammelFs Regiment Connecticut 
Continental Light Infantry, 1781; served with 
Southern Army. 

1884. Morris, Gouverneur, 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Lewis Morris 
(1726-1798), Brigadier-General Westchester County 
Militia, 1776; Delegate to Continental Congress, 
1774-7; Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

1890. Morris, Gouverneur William, 406 

Grandson of Lieutenant William Walton Morris, 2d 
Continental Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, Aug- 
ust 21, 1785. 
Also, Great-grandson of Brigadier-General Lewis 
Morris (1726-1798), Brigadier-General Westchester 
County Militia, 1776; Delegate to Continental Con- 
gress, 1774-7; Signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. 

1890. Morris, Lewis Rutherfurd, M. D., 19S 

Great-grandson of Major Jacob Morris (1755-1844), 
Major in Westchester County (New York) Militia, 
Colonel Dubois, December 14, 1776 ; Aide-de-Camp to 
Major-General Charles Lee, 1776; Aide-de-Camp to 
Major-General Nathaniel Greene, 1778. 



199 

No. of 
Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Lewis 
Morris (1726-1798), Brigadier-General Westchester 
County Militia, 1776 ; Delegate to Continental Con- 
gi'ess, 1774-7; Signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. 



1889. Morris, Newbold, 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Lewis Morris 
(1726-1798), Brigadier-General Westchester County- 
Militia, 1776 ; Delegate to Continental Congress, 
1774-7; Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

1891. Morris, Robert Clark, 

Grandson of Brevet-Major and Captain James Morris, 
Ensign 5th Company ^2d Regiment, Colonel Fisher 
Gay, Connecticut Militia, June, 1776 ; 1st Lieutenant 
5th Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Philip B. 
Bradley, January 1, 1777; taken prisoner at Ger- 
mantown, October 4, 1777; exchanged January 3, 
1781 ; promoted Captain-Lieutenant, July 29, 1780 ; 
promoted Captain, August 22, 1780 ; Captain 2d Reg- 
iment Connecticut Line, Colonel Heman Swift, 
1781; Captain in Colonel Scammell's Regiment 
Connecticut Continental Light Infantry, 1781 ; served 
with Southern Army. 

1891. Morris, Robert Tuttle, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Ensign Lucius Tuttle (1749-1846), 
Captain Bezaleel Ives' Company, Lieutenant-Colonel 
J. Baldwin's Regiment Connecticut Militia, on duty 
at Fishkill, New York, October, 1777. 

1890. Morris, Samuel Fisher, 

Great-grandson of Robert Morris (1734-1806), Member 
and Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Committee 
of Safety ; Member of Continental Congress ; Signer 
of the Declai*ation of Independence ; appointed Super- 
intendent of Finance of the United States, 1781. 



'200 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Morse, Waldo Grant, 81 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Christopher Grant, Jr. 
(1743 ), Lieutenant in Captain Abner Craft's Com- 
pany, Colonel Gardner's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, 1775, at seige of Boston. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Christopher 
Grant, Sr., Private in Captain Samuel Barnard's 
Company, Watertown (Massachusetts) Militia. Lex- 
ington Alarm, April 19, 1775. 

1889. Morton, Henry Holdick, 275 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Shepard Kollock. 2d Regi- 
ment Continental Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, 
Captain by brevet. 

1890. Munson, Henry Theodore, 306 

Grandson of Private Joseph Munson (1765-1S41), Drum- 
mer, Captain Birdseye's Company, 4th Connecticut 
Militia, October 5, 1777. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Marshall Ailing, 
Captain Prentice's Company, 5th Battalion Connect- 
icut Militia, Colonel William Douglass. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Hartham Ramsdell, 
Massachusetts Militia. 

1885. Murray, Charles H., 207 

Great-grandson of Captain Elihu Murray (1752-1835), 
Private Captain Chapin's Company, Colonel John 
Fellows' Regiment Massachusetts Continental Infan- 
try, 1775; on expiration of service, commissioned 
Captain in Colonel Joseph Reed's Regiment; 
transferred to Quartermaster-General's Department, 
under General James Wadsworth. and served to close 
of war. 
Also, Great-grandson of Ensign Daniel Billings (1750- 
1801), Sergeant 3d Company, Captain Samuel Pren- 
tice, 6th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel S. 
H. Parsons, 1775; Ensign 10th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Line, Colonel S. H. Parsons, 1775. 



201 

No, of 
Insignia; 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Ensign Charles Eldridge 
(1743-1798), Connecticut Militia; wounded in action 
at Groton Heights, Connecticut, September 6, 1781. 

Also, Gi'eat-grandson of Private Hezekiah Seymour, 
Captain Prior's Company, Colonel Erastus Wolcott's 
Regiment Connecticut State Troops. 1776 ; Private 
Captain Uriah Seymour's Company Connecticut 
Light Horse, Major Sheldon, 1776. 



1887. Murray, Logan C, 84 

Great-grandson of Colonel Benjamin Logan, Kentucky 
Militia; erected Logan's Fort at Stanford, Kentucky, 
1774; served in Dunmore's Expedition. 1775, and at 
Blue Licks, August 19, 1782. 



Murray, Russell, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry 
Wisner, Major Florida and Warwick Regiment 
Oi'ange County Militia, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel 
same Regiment (Colonel John Hathorn), February 
19, 1778; Member New York Provincial Congress, 
1775; Member of Continental Congress, 177'*.. 



1887. Myer, Albert J., 

Great-grandson of Private Ebenezer Walden, Private 
Captain Porter's Company Massachusetts Militia, 
from Becket, 1777; Private Lieutenant Chamberlin's 
Compauy, Colonel John Brown's Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Militia at "Bennington," 1777. 



1891. Myer, Isaac, 534 

Grandson of Private Benjamin Myer (1764 ). Es- 
sex County (New Jersey) Militia, served at Spring- 
field, New Jersey. 
Also, Great-grandson of Joseph Riggs (1720-1799), Asso- 
ciator, Essex County, New Jersey, Member of New 
Jersey Committee of Correspondence. 1775. 



202 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Mygatt, John Tracey, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Eli Mygatt, 
Major 16th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel 
Joseph Piatt Cooke, May, 1777; promoted Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel same, February 12, 1778. 

1889. Mygatt, Lemuel Carrington, 265 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Eli Mygatt, 
Major 16th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel 
Joseph Piatt Cooke, May, 1777; promoted Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel same, February 12, 1778. 



1890. Neilson, Henry Augustus, 

Great-grandson of Brigadier-General John Neilson 
(1745-1833), Captain New Jersey Militia, 1775 ; Colonel 
2d Regiment Middlesex Battalion Minute Men, August 
31, 1776; Colonel of Regiment State Troops; Briga- 
dier-General New Jersey Militia, February 21, 1777; 
also Deputy Quartermaster-General. 

1891. Nellis, William Jacob, M. D., 513 

Great-grandson of Private Peter Nellis (1760-1813), Cap- 
tain Zeely's Company 2d Regiment Tryon County 
(New York) Militia, Colonel Jacob Klock, February 
18, 1779. 

1889. Newkirk, Warren B., 145 

Great-great-grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant- 
Colonel Sebastian Bauman, 2d Regiment Continental 
Corps of Artillery. 

1891. Newman, John Ludlow, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant James Lyman (1748- 
1804), Captain Seth Peirce's Company, Colonel Mur- 
ray's Regiment Hampshire County (Massachusetts) 
Militia, served on the Hudson, 1780; previously (May 
10, 1777), Sergeant in Captain Moses Harvey's Com- 
pany, Colonel David Wells' Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia. 



203 

No. of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Nichols, George Livingston, Jr., 497 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Isaac Nichols (1748-1835), 
Captain Abraham Livingston's Company, Colonel 
James Livingston's Regiment, "Additional Conti- 
nental," New York, December 18, 1776. 



1887. Nicholson, Christie Few, 256 

Great-great-grandson of Commodore James Nicholson 
(1737-1804), in command of Maryland ship-of-war 
" Defence," 1775; in command of Continental ship- 
of-war "Virginia," 1776; Commander-in-Chief Con- 
tinental Navy, 1777; in command of Continental 
frig-ate "Trumbull," 1780. 



1888. Nicoll, Henry Denton, M. D., 413 

Great-grandson of Captain John Nicoll, 2d Regiment 
Ulster County Militia, New York, Colonel James 
Clinton. 

1890. Norton, John Treadwell, 485 

Great-great-grandson of Major Ichabod Norton (1736- 
1825), Captain in 3d Company, Colonel Samuel Mott's 
Battalion Connecticut State Troops, June, 1776; 
served in Northern Department, under General 
Gates, 1776-7; Major 15th Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, Colonel Isaac Lee, May, 1779. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of John Treadwell (1741- 
1828), Member of Connecticut Assembly, 1776 to 1785. 



1891. Norvell, Duncan Robertson, 622 

Grandson of Lieutenant Lipscomb Norvell (1756-1813), 
Ensign and Paymaster 5th Regiment Virginia Con- 
tinental Infantry, Colonel Josiah Parker, January 
15, 1778 ; Ensign in Captain Valentine Peyton's Com- 
pany, 3d Regiment Virginia Continental Infantry, 
Colonel William Heth, May, 1778; 2d Lieutenant 
same, September. 1778; 1st Lieutenant same, Febru- 
ary, 1780. 



204 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Norwood, Lewis Morris, 679 

Great-grandson of Captain William Willcocks (1734- 
1826), 1st Battalion New York City Militia (New 
York "Independents"), Colonel John Lasher, 1776; 
served in Battle of Long Island. August 27, 1776; 
previously (January 31, 1776), Lieutenant in same. 

1890. Noyes, Charles Harding, 483 

Great-grandson of Captain Seth Harding (1740-1781), 
Connecticut brig-of-war "Defence, 1 ' 1776; Connecti- 
cut State man-of-war "Oliver Cromwell," 1777, and 
Continental frigate "Confederacy/' 1778; captured 
in March, 1781; taken to England, and died there 
while a prisoner. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major-General Samuel Holden 
Parsons ( 1787), Colonel 10th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Continental Infantry, 1776: Brigadier-General 
Connecticut Army, 1776 ; Major-General Connecticut 
Army, 1780; retired on account of ill health, 1782; 
in continuous active service from 1776 to 1782. 

Also, Great-grandson of Titus Hosmer (1736-1780), 
Speaker of Connecticut Assembly, 1773-80: Mem- 
ber of Continental Congress, 1776-7 ; appointed Judge 
of United States Maritime Court of Appeals, 1780, 
but died before entering upon his duties. 

1891. Noyes, Charles Phelps, 680 

Grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Noyes (1754-1819), 
Lieutenant 11th Company, 2d Regiment Rhode Island 
Militia, Colonel Babcock, August 26, 1776; 1st Lieu- 
tenant of Rhode Island State Artillery. May 29, 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of Colonel Joseph Noyes (1727- 
1802), Colonel 1st Regiment Kings County (Rhode 
Island) Militia, May 1, 1775 ; Member of Rhode Island 
General Assembly, 1776, 1780 and 1783. 

1889. Noyes, James Atkins, 45 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Roger Adams, Private in 
Captain Amariah Fuller's Company. Newton (Massa- 
chusetts) Militia, Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775; 
Private in same, September 2, 1778; later Lieutenant 
in same. 



205 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. O'Connor, William Scott, 737 

Great-great-grandson of Captain David Phillips 
(1742-1829), Captain of 2d Company, 7th Battalion 
Chester County Pennsylvania Militia, Colonel Wil- 
liam Gibbons, May 17, 1777. 



1889. Olcott, J. Van Vechten, 

Great-great-grandson of Rev. John Mason, Chaplain 
3d New York Line. 

1889. Olney, George Washington, 248 

Grandson of Captain Stephen Olney, Ensign in Captain 
John Angell's Company, 2d Regiment Rhode Island 
Militia, Colonel Hitchcock, May 1775, at Bunker Hill ; 
1st Lieutenant in Captain Coggeshall's Company, 
11th Regiment Continental Infantry, Colonel Hitch- 
cock, January, 1776; Commissioned Captain in 2d 
Regiment Rhode Island Continental Infantry, Janu- 
ary 1, 1777; served at seige of Yorktown, and severely 
wounded in that engagement. 

1890. Olyphant, Frank Murray, 

Great-grandson of Surgeon David Olyphant, Deputy 
Director-General of Continental Hospital Depart- 
ment, Southern Army ; also Member of South Carolina 
Legislative Council, 1776 ; Member of South Carolina 
Provincial Congress, 1775-6 ; Member of South Caro- 
lina Committee of Safety, 1775-6. 

1888. Olyphant, John Kensett, 24 

Great-grandson of Surgeon David Olyphant, Deputy 
Director-General of Continental Hospital Depart- 
ment, Southern Army ; also Member of South Caro- 
lina Legislative Council, 1776; Member of South 
Carolina Provincial Congress, 1775-6 ; Member of 
South Carolina Committee of Safety, 1775-6. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of William Vernon (1719- 
1806), President of the Continental Navy Board, 
Rhode Island. 



20(5 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Olyphant, Robert, 22 

Great-grandson of Surgeon David Olyphant, Deputy 
Director-General of Continental Hospital Depart- 
ment, Southern Army; also Member of South Caro- 
lina Legislative Council, 1776; Member of South 
Carolina Provincial Congress, 1775-6; Member of 
South Carolina Committee of Safety, 1775-6. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Vernon (1719- 
1806), President of the Continental Navy Board, 
Rhode Island. 



1890. Olyphant, Robert Morrison, 

Grandson of Surgeon David Olyphant, Deputy Director- 
General of Continental Hospital Department, South- 
ern Army ; also Member of South Carolina Legislat- 
ive Council, 1776; Member of South Carolina Pro- 
vincial Congress, 1775-6 ; Member of South Carolina 
Committee of Safety, 1775-6. 



Olyphant, Talbot, 161 

Great-grandson of Surgeon David Olyphant, Deputy 
Director-General of Continental Hospital Depart- 
ment, Southern Army; also Member of South Caro- 
lina ^Legislative Council, 1776 ; Member of South 
Carolina Provincial Congress, 1775-6; Member of 
South Carolina Committee of Safety, 1775-6. 



1890. Olyphant, Reverend Vernon Murray, 

Great-grandson of Surgeon David Olyphant, Deputy 
Director-General of Continental Hospital Depart- 
ment, Southern Army; also Member South Caro- 
lina Legislative Council, 1776 ; Member South Caro- 
lina Provincial Congress, 1775-6 ; Member of South 
Carolina Committee of Safety, 1775-6. 



207 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Vernon (1719- 

1806), President of the Continental Navy Board, 

Rhode Island. 

1885. Owens, James, 

Nephew and Representative of Lieutenant Jonathan 
Owens, Colonel Luddington's Regiment Dutchess 
County Militia, New York, 1778. 



1890. Page, Richard Channing Moore, M. D., 310- 

Grandson of Major Carter Page, Virginia Line. 

Also, Great-grandson of Colonel Archibald Cary, Lieu- 
tenant Spottsylvania Minute Men, September 12, 
1775; later Colonel Virginia Militia; Member of 
Virginia Convention, 1775-6 ; Speaker of the Upper 
House Virginia Senate, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Nel- 
son, Virginia Minute Men, Colonel Champion Travis, 
October 12, 1775; Member of Virginia Convention, 
1775-6. 

1891. Page, Walter Gilman, 

Great-grandson of Fifer Lemuel Page (1757-1822), Fifer 
in Captain Philip Thomas' Company, Colonel James 
Reed's Regiment New Hampshire Militia, April 20, 
1775 ; Private in Captain Abijah Smith's Company, 
Colonel Enoch Hale's Regiment New Hampshire 
Militia, September 21, 1776; Fifer in Captain Solo- 
mon Stone's Company, same Regiment, July 12, 
1777; Fifer in Captain Samuel Cunningham's Com- 
pany, Colonel Enoch Hale's Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Militia, on service with the Continental Army 
in Rhode Island, August 10, 1778. 

1891. Parke, Hudson Hovey, 

Great-grandson of Private Elisha Parke (1746-1812), 
Captain James Morgan's Company, 8th Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Smith, 
September 8 to November 17, 1776; served around 
New York. 



208 

No. of 
■Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Parker, Dangerfield, Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. A., 633 
Grandson of Lieutenant William Harwar Parker, of 
Virginia, Continental Navy; honorably discharged 
at close of war. 



1887. Parkin, Henry Grenville, 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Ethan Allen, Vermont. 

1888. Parsons, Albert Ross, 74 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Aaron Parsons, Jr. (1736- 
1799), Sergeant in Captain Gideon Burt's Company, 
Colonel Timothy Danielson's Regiment Massachu- 
setts Militia, April 28, 1775 ; served at siege of Boston ; 
later in Continental service at West Point. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Aaron Parsons 
3d (1761-1815), Sergeant in Captain William Hitch- 
cock's Company 6th Regiment Massachusetts Conti- 
nental Infantry, July 3, 1780; served with the 3d 
Division of 6 months' men under Lieutenant Daniel 
Frye of the "Artificers," 1780. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Samuel Averill, 
of Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment "Additional 
Continental" Infantry. 

3891. Parsons, Jacob Cox, 610 

Great-gi'andson of Private Jacob Hiltzheimer (1729- 
1798), 1st Battalion Pennsylvania State Militia, De- 
cember 17, 1776; detached to Quartermaster-Gene- 
ral's Department under General Mifflin. 
Also, Great-grandson of Captain Hezekiah Parsons, 
Captain of Enfield (Connecticut) Militia, "Lexington 
Alarm," April 19, 1775; marched to relief of Boston; 
at Ticonderoga, 1775 ; Captain 2d Company, 3d Bat- 
tallion Connecticut Militia, Colonel Comfort Sage, 
Wadsworth's Brigade ; served around New York, 
1776. 
Also, Grandson of Private Jacob Cox (1761-1812), Pri- 
vate in Captain William Price's Company Chester 
County (Pennsylvania) Militia, Colonel John Han- 
num, July 16, 1777. 



209 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Parsons, John D., Jr., 445 

Great-grandson of Corporal Henry Bowne (1752-1825), 
New Jersey Line. 

1891. Patterson, Edward Liddon, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Christo- 
pher Stuart ( 1799), Captain 5th Pennsylvania 

Battalion, January 5, 1776 ; Captain 6th Regiment, 
Major 5th Regiment, September 20, 1776 ; Lieutenant- 
Colonel 3d Regiment, April 17, 1780, Pennsylvania 
Line. 

1887. Patterson, Jacob M., 197 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Patterson (1742- 
1822), Captain Olmsted's Company, Colonel Bezaleel 
Beebe's Regiment Connecticut Militia. 

1890. Patterson, John H., Major U. S. A., 334 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher 
Stuart ( 1799), Captain 5th Pennsylvania Battal- 
ion, January 5, 1776; Major 5th Regiment, Septem- 
ber 20, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel 3d Regiment, April 
17. 1780, Pennsylvania Line. 

1888. Peabody, Charles Augustus, Jr., 

Great-grandson of Captain Richard Peabody (1731- 
1820), Colonel Wiggles worth's Regiment Massachu- 
setts Militia, at Ticonderoga, 1777. 

1888. Peet, John Northrop, 

Great-grandson of Captain John Webb, Lieutenant 
in ''Sheldon's Dragoons," January 10, 1777; Cap- 
tain in same, January 1, 1778; Aide-de-Camp to 
Major-General Robert Howe, 1781; served to close 
of war. 

1891. Pell, Arthur, 

Great-great-grandson of Major-General Philip Schuyler 
(1733-1804), Major-General Continental Army, 1775; 
resigned 1779 ; Delegate to Continental Congress, 
1775-7; Member New York Provincial Congress, 
1778-9 ; Member of New York Senate, 1781-4. 



210 

No, of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Pell, William Cruger, 626 

Great-great-grandson of Major-General Philip Schuy- 
ler (1733-1804), Major- General Continental Army, 
1775 ; resigned 1779 ; Delegate to Continental Con- 
gress, 1775-7; Member New York Provincial Con- 
gress, 1778-9; Member New York State Senate, 
1781-4. 



1890. Peltz, John DeWitt, 

Great-great-grandson of Captain John L. DeWitt 
(1731-1803), Captain 2d Rhinebeck Company 1st Reg- 
iment Ulster County (New York) Minute Men, Colo- 
nel Jonathan Van Ness, October 17, 1775; Captain 
in Colonel Abraham Hasbrouck's Regiment Ulster 
County Militia, October 25, 1775. 



1888. Perkins, Charles Elwell, 191 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel David Cobb 
(1748-1830), Lieutenant-Colonel in 16th Regiment 
Massachusetts Continental Infantry, Colonel Henry 
Jackson, 1776-9; Aide-de-Camp to the Commander- 
in-Chief, 1781; Member Massachusetts Provincial 
Congress, 1775 ; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 1783. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain Noah Hall, Colonel 
Abiel Mitchell's Regiment Massachusetts Infantry. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Joseph Perkins, 
Private in Lieutenant Daniel Wheelwright's Com- 
pany Massachusetts Militia, August, 1776 ; Private in 
Captain Nathaniel Cousens' Company, Major Little- 
field's Battalion York Militia, in Penobscot Expedi- 
tion, 1779. 



1887. Perkins, Edward C, 

Great-grandson of Commissary James Davenport, Con- 



tinental Army, Connecticut. 



211 

No. of 

Elected. ^Insignia. 

1890. Perry, Alexander James, Brevet Brigadier-General, 

U. S. A., 481 

Grandson of Christopher Raymond Perry (1761-1818), 
served on the " Miffln," Commander Babcock ; cap- 
tured, confined in prison ship "Jersey;" escaped 
after three months' confinement ; subsequently served 
as Midshipman on Continental frigate "Trumbull," 
Captain James Nicholson. 



1890. Perry, William Stevens, Right Rev., D. D., LL.D., 

D. C. L., Bishop of Iowa. 314 

Grandson of Lieutenant Abel Perry, Continental Line, 
Massachusetts, 32d Regiment Continental Foot. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain William Stevens, 2d 
Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery. 



1888. Perry, William Sumner, 

Great-grandson of Christopher Raymond Perry (1761- 
1818), served on the " Miffliu," Commander Babcock; 
captured, confined in prison ship "Jersey;" escaped 
after three months' confinement; subsequently served 
as Midshipman on Continental frigate "Trumbull," 
Captain James Nicholson. 



1889. Phillips, Wendell C, M. D., 221 

Great-great-great-grandson of Colonel Ethan Allen, 
Vermont. 



1890. Phisterer, Karl Joseph, 477 

Great-great-grandson of Private Caleb Tattle (1758- 
1836), Captain David Bates' Company, Colonel 
Ephraim Martin's Regiment, "Heard's Brigade," 
New Jersey ' Militia, and Private in Captain Giles 
Mead's Company, 1st Regiment New Jersey Line, 
Colonel Mathias Offden. 



212 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn, 

Great-grandson of John Jay (l74r>-182 ( ,» i . Member of 
Continental Congress ; President of same thi'ee years ; 
prepared draft Constitution of New York, 1777, and 
appointed first Chief -Justice under it ; Chairman of 
New York Council of Safety ; Member of New York 
Provincial Congress; appointed Colonel of 2d Regi- 
ment New York City Militia, October 27, 1775. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant- 
Colonel Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825), Private in 
Colonel Ritzema's Corps of American Fusiliers, 1775 ; 
served with Northern Army, 1777-9; acting Aide-de- 
Camp to Arnold at Saratoga ; appointed Aide-de-Camp 
to Major-General Lincoln in Southern Army, 1779, at 
Savannah; served as Major of Light Infantry, 1780; 
taken prisoner at Charleston ; exchanged 1781 ; served 
as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Lincoln to close of 
war; Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, 1783. 

Also, Great -great -grandson of William Livingston 
(1723-1790), Brigadier-General New Jersey Militia. 
October 28, 1775 ; Governor of New Jersey, 1776-90 ; 
also Member of Continental Congress. 

1885. Pierrepont, John Jay, 274 

Great-grandson of John Jay (1745-1829), Member of 
Continental Congress ; President of same three years : 
prepared draft Constitution of New York, 1777, and 
appointed first Chief Justice under it; Chairman of 
New York Council of Safety ; Member of New York 
Provincial Congress; appointed Colonel of 2d Regi- 
ment New York City Militia, October 27. 1775. 
Also, Great-grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant- 
Colonel Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825); Private in 
Colonel Ritzema's Corps of American Fusiliers, 1775: 
served with Northern Army, 1777-9; acting Aide-de- 
Camp to Arnold at Saratoga ; appointed Aide-de-Camp 
to Major-General Lincoln in Southern Army, 1779. at 
Savannah ; served as Major of Light Infantry, 1780 ; 
taken prisoner at Charleston ; exchanged 1781 ; served 
as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Lincoln to close of 
war; Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, 1783. 



213 

No. of 

Insignia, 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Livingston 
(1723-1790), Brigadier-General New Jersey Militia, 
October 28, 1775 ; Governor of New Jersey. 1776-90 ; 
also Member of Continental Congress. 



1890. Pierrepont, William Augustus, M. D.. 402 

Great-grandson of Jobn Jay (1745-1829), Member of 
Continental Congress ; President of same three years ; 
prepared draft Constitution of New York, 1777, and 
appointed first Chief Justice under it; Chairman of 
New York Council of Safety ; Member of New York 
Provincial Congress; appointed Colonel of 2d Regi- 
ment New York City Militia, October 27, 1775. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant- 
Colonel Matthew Clarkson (1758-1825): Private in 
Colonel Ritzema's Corps of American Fusiliers, 1775 ; 
served with Northern Army, 1777-9 ; acting Aide-de- 
Camp to Arnold at Saratoga ; appointed Aide-de-Camp 
to Major-General Lincoln in Southern Army, 1779, at 
Savannah ; served as Major of Light Infantry, 1780 ; 
taken prisoner at Charleston ; exchanged 1781 ; served 
as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Lincoln to close of 
war; Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, 1783. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Livingston 
(1723-1790), Brigadier-General New Jersey Militia, 
October 28, 1775; Governor of New Jersey, 1776-90; 
also Member of Continental Congress. 

1891. Pierson, John Shaw, 

Grandson of Lieutenant Daniel Pierson (1750-1831), 
4th Company, Captain William E. Finlay, 3d Bat- 
talion, 1st Establishment New Jersey Line, Colonel 
Elias Dayton, April 23, 1776 ; served with Northern 
Army. 

1891. Pillsbury, Burke, M. D., 557: 

Great-grandson of Private Joshua Pillsbury (1738-1798), 
Captain Moses Little's Company Massachusetts Mili- 
tia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775. 



214 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Pinto, Francis E., 107 

Son of Private William Pinto, Connecticut Militia, 
"New Haven Alarm,' 1 1781. 

1889. Pinto, William A., 41 

Grandson of Private William Pinto, Connecticut Militia, 
"New Haven Alarm," 1781. 

1891. Polk, William M., M. D., 

Great-grandson of Colonel Thomas Polk, Colonel 2d 
Battalion North Carolina Militia, December 21, 1775 ; 
Colonel 4th Regiment North Carolina Militia, April 
22, 1776 ; Colonel 4th Regiment North Carolina Con- 
tinental Infantry, May 7, 1776; Member of North 
Carolina Assembly, and Signer of the Mecklenburg 
Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775; Com- 
missary-General of North Carolina. 

1889. Pomeroy, George Eltweed, 166 
Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Seth Pome- 
roy ( 1777) ; appointed Brigadier-General Conti- 
nental Army, June, 1775, declined ; served as volunteer 
at ' ' Bunker Hill ; " Colonel 2d Regiment Hampshire 
County Militia, February 6, 1776 ; Member of Massa- 
chusetts Provincial Congress, 1774-5. 

1888. Pond, Charles H., 96 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Charles Pond, En- 
sign in 9th Company, Captain Peter Perritt, 7th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Charles Webb, 
July 6, 1776 ; 1st Lieutenant 19th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Line, Colonel Charles Webb, 1776; Captain 6th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel William Doug- 
lass, January 1, 1777; resigned April 20, 1779. 
Also, Great-graudson of Colonel Hercules Mooney, 
Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel Pierre Long's Regi- 
ment New Hampshire Continental Infantry, August 
7, 1776; Colonel of 300 men raised for defense of 
Rhode Island, June 23, 1779, to January 16, 1780; 
Member New Hampshire Provincial Congress, 1776. 



215 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Pond, Winthrop, 315 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Charles Pond, En- 
sign in 9th Company, Captain Peter Perritt, 7th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Charles Webb, 
July 6, 1776 ; 1st Lieutenant 19th Regiment Connecti- 
cut Line, Colonel Charles Webb, 1776; Captain 6th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel William Doug- 
lass, January 1, 1777; resigned April 20. 1779. 

1888. Poole, Murray Edward, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Poole, Cap- 
tain Abiel Pierce's Company, Colonel Nicholas Dike's 
Regiment Massachusetts Infantry. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Poole, Mem- 
ber of Massachusetts Provincial Assembly, 1778-80, 
and Member of Committees of Safety and Corre- 
spondence. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Jesse Mullick, Captain 
Bailey's Company, Colonel John Hathorn's Regiment 
Orange County Militia, New York. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Absalom Carey, Cap- 
tain William Cummings's Company, Colonel Mit- 
chell's Regiment of Militia, stationed at Newburgh. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Cooley, 
Associator, Orange County, New York. 

1891. Poor, James Harper, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Poor (1737-1795), 
Private in Captain Stephen Kent's Company of Vol- 
unteers from Essex County, Massachusetts, July 14, 
1775; Private same Company, raised for seacoast 
service, November 1, 1775 ; Private in Captain Moses 
Newell's Company Massachusetts Volunteer Infan- 
try, July 9, 1776 ; 2d Lieutenant in Captain Gideon 
Foster's Company of Militia, May 4, 1779. 

1891. Pope, James Warden, Captain U. S. A., 711 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Charles Mynn Thrus- 
ton (1738-1812), Colonel of "additional Continental" 
Infantry, Virginia. 



216 

No. of 

•Sleeted. Insignia. 

1885." Popham, George Morris, 192 

Great-grandson of Major William Popham (1752-1847), 
entered the service as Lieutenant of Minute Men 
before the formal organization of the regiments for 
the war; served in the Battle of Long Island; ap- 
pointed Aide-de-Camp to General James Clinton, 
1777; served with the Sullivan Expedition, 1779; 
subsequently transferred to the staff of Baron Steu- 
ben with rank of Major. 



1890. Popham, William Sherbrooke, 

Great-grandson of Major William Popham (1752-1817), 
entered the service as Lieutenant of Minute Men 
before the formal organization of the regiments for 
the war; served in the Battle of Long Island; ap- 
pointed Aide-de-Camp to General James Clinton, 
1777; served with the Sullivan Expedition, 1779; 
subsequently transferred to the staff of Baron Steu- 
ben, with rank of Major. 



1888. Potter, Orlando B., 199 

Grandson of Corporal Samuel Rice, Corporal 7th Com- 
pany, Captain Isaac Farwell, 1st Regiment New 
Hampshire Continental Infantry, Colonel Cilley, 

1780, 



1888. *Potts, Frederick A. (died November 9, 1888), 

Great-grandson of Thomas Potts, Member New Jersey 

Provincial Congress, 1774-6. 
Also, Great-grandson of Captain and Brigade Quarter- 
master John Hughes, Sergeant 6th Battalion Penn- 
sylvania Line, 177(5; Ensign same, 1776; Quarter- 
master 7th Regiment Pennsylvania Line, 1778; 
Brigade-Quartermaster 1st Brigade, 1778; Lieutenant 
4th Regiment Pennsylvania Line, 1779; Captain 4th 
Regiment Pennsylvania Line. 1779; retired from 
service, 1781. 



217 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1883. *Potts, George H. (died April 28, 1888), 

Grandson of Thomas Potts, Member New Jersey Pro- 
vincial Congress, 1774-6. 
Also, Grandson of Captain and Brigade Quai'termaster 
John Hughes, Sergeant 6th Battalion Pennsylvania 
Line. 1776; Ensign same, 1776; Quartermaster 7th 
Regiment Pennsylvania Line, 1778; Brigade-Quarter- 
master 1st Brigade, 1778 ; Lieutentant 4th Regiment 
Pennsylvania Line, 1779; Captain 4th Regiment 
Pennsylvania Line, 1779; retired from service, 1781. 

1889. Powers, Charles Andrew, M. D., 268 

Great-great-grandson of Private Eliot Powers (1732- 
1783), Private in Temple New Hampshire Militia. 
" Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Private in Cap- 
tain Gershom Drury's Company Temple Militia; 
marched from Temple to reinfoi-ce the Continental 
Army at Ticonderoga, June 29, 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private John Stone (1764- 
1845), Private in Captain Samuel Twitch ell's Com- 
pany New Hampshire Volunteers, Colonel Enoch 
Hale, August 10, 1778; served in Rhode Island. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Benjamin Cutler, 
Private in Captain Abijah Smith's Company, Colonel 
Nahum Baldwin's Regiment New Hampshh*e Militia, 
September 22, 1776; Private in Captain Samuel 
Twitchell's Company, New Hampshire Volunteers, 
Colonel Enoch Hale, August 10, 1778; served in 
Rhode Island. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Benjamin Pierce 

(1725 >, Private in Captain Samuel Lamson's 

Company Leicester Massachusetts Militia, ' ' Lexing- 
ton Alarm," April 19, 1775; Private in Captain 
Nathan Fuller's Company 37th Regiment Massachu- 
setts Continental Infantry, Colonel William Bond, 
177:); Private in Captain Hudson Ballard's Company. 
Colonel Whitcomb's Regiment Massachusetts Militia. 
November 27, 1776, at Ticonderoga; Private in Cap- 
tain Smith's Company, 15th Regiment Continental 
Infantry (Massachusetts). Colonel Bigelow, April 1, 
1 777. 



218 

No. of 



Elected. \i 

1889. Prall, John Howard, 71 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant John Prall, New Jersey 
Militia. 

1889. * Prall, John Parker (died March 5, 1891), 

Grandson of Lieutenant John Prall, New Jersey Militia. 

1889. Pratt, Henry, 34 

Grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Pratt, of Colonel 
Proctor's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, in charge 
of Coast Defences about Chelsea, Massachusetts. 

1888. Prentice, Robert Kelly, 800 

Great-great-grandson of Major Nathaniel Sartell Pren- 
tice, Captain 3d Company 16th Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Militia, Colonel Bellows, March 5, 1776; elected 
Major in Colonel Nahum Baldwin's New Hampshire 
Regiment, September 17, 1776, but did not serve; 
Member New Hampshire Provincial Congress, 1776. 

1889. Prentice, William Satterlee Packer, 80 

Great-grandson of Major Nathaniel Sartell Prentice, 
Captain 3d Company 16th Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Militia, Colonel Bellows, March 5, 1776 ; elected 
Major in Colonel Nahum Baldwin's New Hampshire 
Regiment, September 17, 1776, but did not serve; 
Member New Hampshire Provincial Congress, 1776. 

1891. Price, Alfred Bryant, 524 

Grandson of Private Joseph Green (1757-1842), Conti- 
nental Line, New Jersey. 

1889. Prime, Edward, 277 

Great-grandson of Paymaster Comfort Sands (1748- 
1834), Paymaster of Westchester, Dutchess, Orange 
and Ulster Counties Militia, April 4, 1777; Member 
of New York Committee of One Hundred, May, 
1775; Member of New York Provincial Congress, 
1775-6 ; Member of New York Committee of Safety, 
January 10, 1776; Auditor-General of the Colony 
of New York, 1776. 



219 

Elected. 

1890. Provost, David, 307 

Grandson of Private John Provost (1760-1832), Middle- 
sex County Militia, New Jersey. 



1890. Pruyn, Augustus, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Casparus Pruyn (1734- 
1817), 1st Regiment Albany County Militia, New 
York, Colonel Jacob Lansing, Jr. 

1888. Pruyn, John Van Schaick Lansing (Life Member), 216 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Casparus Pruyn (1734- 
1817), 1st Regiment Albany County Militia, New 
York, Colonel Jacob Lansing, Jr. 

Also, Great-grandson of Quartermaster Cbristopher 
Lansing, 3d Albany County Militia, New York. 



1890. Pumpelly, John Hollenback, 421 

Great-grandson of Colonel Elizur Talcott (1709-1797), 
6th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1776. 

1890. Pumpelly, Raphael, 798 

Great-grandson of Colonel Elizur Talcott (1709-1797), 
6th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 1776. 

1889. Putnam, Albert Edward, 16 

Great-grandson of Captain Jeremiah Putnam, Essex 
County Militia, Massachusetts. 

1891. Putnam, Harvey Worthington, 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Benjamin Simonds 
(1726-1807), Colonel 2d Regiment Berkshire County 
(Massachusetts) Militia, 1775; Colonel 7th Regiment 
Berkshire County Militia, 1776; Colonel 3d Regi- 
ment Berkshire County Militia, April 4, 1777. 



220 

No. of 
■Elected. Insignia 

1891. Ramsey, Frank DeWitt, Lieutenant, U. S. A., 501 

Great - great - grandson of Corporal Abner Smith, 
" Delevan's " Westchester County Light Horse, 
January, 1780; previously Private in 1st Company. 
Captain James Rosekrans, 5th Regiment New York 
Line, Colonel Dubois, March 20, 1778. 

1890. Rankin, Egbert Guernsey, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Major Henry Schenck (1743-1799), 

2d Regiment Dutchess County Minute Men, Colonel 

Jacobus Swartwout ; Member of 2d and 3d New York 

Provincial Congress. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel Jacob Blackwell 

1717 ), Queens County Militia, and Member New 

York Provincial Congress. 

1888. Ray, James, 

Grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Marinus Willett (1740- 
1830), Captain in Colonel McDougall's Regiment, 
raised for Continental service, June 28, 1775 ; served 
with Montgomery in Canada; Lieutenant-Colonel 1st 
New York Line, Colonel Van Schaick, March 21, 
1776; at Fort Stanwix, 1777; at Monmouth, 1778; 
with Sullivan's Expedition, 1779; Lieutenant-Colonel 
commanding 5th New York Line, January 1, 1780: 
Lieutenant-Colonel commanding New York Levies. 
April 27, 1781-3; Colonel commanding Tryon County 
Militia, April 10, 1782. 

1889. Raymond, Marcius Denison, 

Grandson of Private Newcomb Raymond (1763-1852), 
Private in Captain Olmstead's Company, Colonel 
Roger Euo's Regiment Connecticut Militia, served 
on the Hudson, 1778; Private in 4th Regiment Con- 
necticut Line, Colonel Heman Swift, January 29. 
1780; Private in Captain Converse's Company, 2d 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Swift, January 
1, 1781. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private John Gray, 3d New 
York Line, Colonel Gansevoort, December 11, 1776. 



221 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Read, Harmon Pumpelly, 270 

Great-great-grandson of George Read (1733-1798), Mem- 
ber of Continental Congress; Signer of the Declara- 
tion of Independence; President of the Delaware 
Constitutional Convention : Judge of the Admiralty, 
1782. 



1884. Redding, Charles Harold Edgar, 147 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Kent Wright, detached 
Company Connecticut Militia, died of wounds re- 
ceived in action at White Plains, New York. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant John Hubbell 
(1746-1830), Sergeant in Captain Abijah Sterling's 
Company, Connecticut Militia, 1777; Lieutenant in 
Captain Dimons Company. Connecticut Militia, 1775. 



1890. Redington, Lyman Williams. 525 

Grandson of Private Jacob Redington (1759-1843), 
Private in Captain King's Company, Colonel Whit- 
ing's 17th Regiment Albany County Militia, 1775-6 ; 
Private in 7th Regiment Massachusetts Continental 
Infantry, Colonel John Brooks, July 13, 1780; Pri- 
vate in Captain Pike's Company, 6th Regiment Mas- 
sachusetts Continental Infantry ; transferred to 10th 
Massachusetts ; transferred to Captain Kirby Smith's 
Company, 2d Regiment Massachusetts Continental 
Infantry, 1781 ; served to close of war. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Amasa Sheldon 
( 1780), Captain 4th Company, 5th New Hamp- 
shire, May 3, 1776 ; Captain in Colonel Brewer's New 
Hampshire Regiment, September, 1776; Captain in 
Colonel Elisha Porter's Regiment New Hampshire 
Militia, in expedition northward, July 10, 1777; also 
served in Colonel David Well's Regiment in North- 
ern Department, September 23, 1777, to October 18, 
1777. 



222 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1885. Reed, Theo. Frelinghuysen, 133 

Great-grandson of Private Elnathan Reed, Middlesex 

County Militia, Massachusetts. 
Also, Grandson of Private Joshua Reed, Middlesex 

County Militia, Massachusetts. 
Also, Grandson of Sergeant David Haynes Foster, 

Suffolk County Militia, New York. 



1891. Remington, Cyrus Kingsbury, 704 

Great-grandson of Captain Abner Granger (1735-1816), 
2d Lieutenant in Captain Phineas Lovejoy's Com- 
pany, 3d Battalion Connecticut State Troops, Colonel 
Roger Enos, November, 1776, to March 1, 1777 ; 2d 
Lieutenant in Colonel Roger Enos' Battalion Con- 
necticut State Troops, June, 1777; Captain in Colo- 
nel Samuel Canfield's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
at Horse Neck, 1782. 



1887. Revere, Aug. Le Fevbre, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Revere, 
Massachusetts Artillery, Continental Army. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Lamb, Col- 
onel Henry Jackson's Regiment, Massachusetts Line. 



1890. Rhinelander, Philip, 374 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Jesse Oakley, 5th Regi- 
ment New York Militia, Beekman's Precinct, Col- 
onel William Humphrey; Secretary of Dutchess 
County Committee of Safety, June 25, 1776. 



1890. Rhinelander, T. J. Oakley, 487 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Jesse Oakley, 5th Regi- 
ment New York State Militia, Beekman's Precinct, 
Colonel William Humphrey; Secretary of Dutchess 
County Committee of Safety, June 25, 1776. 



223 

No - of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1890, Riker, Edward Wood. 370 

Great-great-great-grandson of Private James Wallace, 
5th Company, Captain Aarson, 3d Regiment New 
York Line, Colonel Gansevoort, January 13, 1777. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Ananias Weed (1752- 
1820), Private in Captain Joseph Hull's Company, 
Stamford, Connecticut Militia, "Lexington Alarm," 
April, 1775 ; Private in 1st Company, 5th Regiment, 
Connecticut State Troops, Colonel David Waterhury, 
May 6, 1775; 2d Sergeant in 7th Company, Captain 
Nathaniel Webb, same regiment, February 25, 1776 ; 
Sergeant in Colonel Charles Webb's Regiment, 1776, 
at White Plains and Trenton; Private in Captain 
Bell's Company of Militia, " Danbury Raid," 1777; 
Private in Captain Wales' Company Connecticut 
Militia, August 25, 1777. 

1889. Riker, Henry Laurens, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Riker (1743-1823), 
of Captain Daniel Lawrence's Troop of Light Horse, 
Queens County Militia, New York, and Member of 
Queens County Committee of Safety, 1776. 

1887. Riker, John Jackson, 14 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Riker (1743-1823), 
of Captain Daniel Lawrence's Troop of Light Horse, 
Queens County Militia, New York, and Member of 
Queens County Committee of Safety, 1776. 

1890. Riker, John Lawrence, 

Grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Riker (1743-1823), of 
Captain Daniel Lawrence's Troop of Light Horse, 
Queens County Militia, New York, and Member of 
Queens County Committee of Safety, 1776. 

1889. Riker, Richard, 304 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Riker (1743-1823), 
of Captain Daniel Lawrence's Troop of Light Horse, 
Queens County Militia, New York, and Member of 
Queens County Committee of Safety, 1776. 



224 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Eiker, Samuel, Jr., 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Riker (1743-1823), 
of Captain Daniel Lawrence's Troop of Light Horse, 
Queens County Militia, New York, and Member of 
Queens County Committee of Safety, 1776. 

1891. Robbins, Rowland A., 577 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Frederick Robbins (1756- 
1821), Private in Captain John Chester's Company, 
2d Regiment Connecticut Continental Infantry, Col- 
onel Spencer, May 12, 1775 ; served at Siege of Bos- 
ton ; Sergeant in Captain Chester Wells' Company, 
6th Battalion. Wads worth's Brigade Connecticut 
Militia, June 6. 1776. 

1890. Roberts, Charles, 430 

Great-great-grandson of Private John Roberts (1727- 
1796), Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment, Continental 
Army, Vermont, February 19, 1777. 
Also, Great-grandson of Sergeant Christopher Rob- 
erts (1753-1832), Captain Thomas Barney's Company, 
Vermont Militia, Colonel Ira Allen, in service from 
1775 to 1783. 

1890. Roberts, Evelyn Pierrepont, 446 

Great-great-grandson of Private John Roberts (1727- 
1796), Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment, Continental 
Army, Vermont, February 19, 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of Sergeant Christopher Rob- 
erts (1753-1832), Captain Thomas Barney's Company, 
Vermont Militia, Colonel Ira Allen, in service from 
1775 to 1783. 

1891. Roberts, Thomas Benjamin Griggs, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant John Whitlock ( 1777), 

1st Regiment Monmouth County Militia, New Jersey, 
killed in action at Middletown, New Jersey, February 
13, 1777. 

1889. Robertson, Henry Montague, 

Great-grandson of Private John Moody, Cavalry 
Virginia. 



225 

No. of 
Elected. Insi ^ a - 

1891. Robeson, Henry Bellows, Captain, U. S. N., 609 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Bellows 
(1744-1817), Major 8th Regiment, Worcester County. 
Massachusetts Militia, 1776; Captain Massachusetts 
Continental Infantry, October, 1777, at "Saratoga." 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Reverend Nathanael 
Taylor (1722-1800), of New Milford, Connecticut, 
contributed one year's salary to the cause, as shown 
bv the Parish records, April, 1779. 



1819. Robinson, Alfred Brookes, 

Great-great-grandson of Major John Cbipman, of Ver- 
mont (1744-1829), 2d Lieutenant in Captain John 
Grant's Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment 
"Green Mountain Boys," July 27, 1775 ; 1st Lieuten- 
ant in Captain Smith's Company same Regiment, 
1776; at Ticonderoga, March, 1777; "Bennington," 
" Saratoga " and " Fort George " ; promoted Captain ; 
taken prisoner at "Fort George": Major 2d Regi- 
ment New York Levies, Lieutenant-Colonel John 
Harper, June 16, 1780. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Abial Peirce 
(1733-1811), Middleboro' Minute Men, at Lexington, 
April 19, 1775; later, Captain in Colonel Nicholas 
Dike's Regiment Massachusetts Continental Infantry. 



1890. Robinson, Charles P., 

Great-grandson of Captain Abner Robinson (1738- 
1815), Sergeant in Lieutenant Jonathan Palmer's 
Company of Windham, Connecticut Militia, "Lex- 
ington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Ensign in Captain, 
Obadiah Johnson's Company, 3d Regiment, Con- 
necticut Continental Infantry, Colonel Israel Put- 
nam, May 1, 1775; 2d Lieutenant in Captain Vine 
Elderken's Company, Colonel Samuel Mott's State 
Battalion, June, 1776; Captain in Colonel Samuel 
McClellans Regiment Connecticut Militia, Tyler's 
Brigade, in Rhode Island, March 1, 1778; Captain 
Connecticut Militia, 1781. 



226 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Robison, William, 447 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Isaac Bogert 
(1741-1818), Captain Thomas De Witt's Company, 3d 
New York Line, Colonel Gansevoort, November 21, 
177(3, and Captain New York Levies under Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel H. K. Van Rensselaer, October 20, 1779. 

1891. Rochester, De Lancey, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (1752- 
1831), Paymaster, with rank of Major, North Caro- 
lina Line, August, 1775; Paymaster 7th Regiment 
North Carolina Militia, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel 
Orange County (North Carolina) Militia, April 22, 
1776 ; promoted Colonel of same, 1777 ; Deputy Com- 
missary-General of military and other stores in North 
Carolina, May 10, 1776; Member of Orange County 
(North Carolina) Committee of Safety, 1775 ; Member 
of North Carolina Provincial Congress, 1776. 

1891. Rochester, Nathaniel, 558 

Great-grandson of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (1752- 
1831), Paymaster, with rank of Major, North Caro- 
lina Line, August, 1775; Paymaster 7th Regiment 
North Carolina Militia, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel 
Orange County (North Carolina) Militia, April 22, 
1776; promoted Colonel of same, 1777; Deputy Com- 
missary-General of military and other stores in North 
Carolina, May 10, 1776; Member of Orange County 
(North Carolina) Committee of Safety, 1775 ; Member 
of North Carolina Provincial Congress, 1776. 

1889. Rockwood, George Gardner, 262 

Great-grandson of Elijah Gardner, Associator, Dutchess 
County, New York. 

1891. Rodgers, Robertson, 

Great-grandson of Rev. John Rodgers, D. D. (1727- 
1811), Chaplain in Heath's Brigade, Continental Army, 
New York, 1776 ; Chaplain of New York State Con- 
vention, 1777. 



227 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia* 

1892. Roe, Charles Francis, 792 

Great-grandson of Private Stephen Roe (1758-1838), 
Private in Captain Job Wright's Company, 1st Reg- 
iment New York Continental Infantry, Colonel 
Goose Van Schaick, March 1, 1776. 

1886. Roe, William James, 

Great-grandson of 1st Lieutenant James Roe, 2d Quar- 
termaster 1st Regiment Ulster County Militia, Colonel 
Abraham Hasbrouck, 1775; 1st Lieutenant, Captain 
Simon Lefevre's Company same Regiment, 1778. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Norman Clark, Pri- 
vate Captain Boaz Moore's Company, Colonel Doo- 
little's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, '•Lexington 
Alarm," April 19, 1775; 2d Lieutenant Captain Flint's 
Company, Colonel Jonathan Holman's Regiment Mas- 
chusetts Militia, 1776; wounded at Battle of Harlem 
Plains, September, 1776, and served under General 
Stark, 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of John Franklin, appointed by 
General Washington, Agent for Prisoners at New 
York, 1780. 

1885. Roosa, Daniel B. St. John, M. D., 

Great-grandson of First Lieutenant Isaac Roosa, 2d 
Company, Captain John Davis, 4th New York Line, 
Colonel Hemy B. Livingston ; later Lieutenant 
Hanover Precinct Company Associated Exempts. 

1891. Roosevelt, Frank, 65$ 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Potts ( 1785-1785), 
Member New Jersey Provincial Congress, 1771-6. 

1887. Runk, Rev. Edward J., 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Jacob Runk, 3d Regi- 
ment Hunterdon County Militia, New Jersey. 

Also, Gi*eat-grandson of Private William Todd, 2d 
Battalion Continental Army, New Jersey. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant John Stag"-. 
Malcolm's 2d Regiment New York City Militia, 1776. 



228 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. RUTHERFURD, JOHN ALEXANDER, 365 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant William Walton Morris, 
2d Continental Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, 
New York, August 21, 1781. 

Also, Great-great grandson of Brigadier-General Lewis 
Morris (1726-1798), Brigadier-General Westchester 
County Militia, 1776; Delegate to Continental Con- 
gress, 1774-7; Signer of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence. 

Also, Grandson of David Brooks, of Pennsylvania, 
Assistant Clothier-General, Continental Army. 

1890. RUTHERPURD, WALTER. 366 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant William Walton Morris, 
2d Continental Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, 
New York, August 21, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Lewis 
Morris (1726-1798), Brigadier-General Westchester 
County Militia, 1776; Delegate to Continental Con- 
gress, 1774-7 ; Signer of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence. 

Also, Grandson of David Brooks, of Pennsylvania, 
Assistant Clothier-General, Continental Army. 

1891. Ruxton, Philip, 703 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel William Barton (1748- 
1831), Colonel Rhode Island Continental Infantry, 
December 24, 1777; presented with a sword by the 
Continental Congress in recognition of his services 
in capturing the British General Pi*escott, July 9, 1777. 



1891.;" Sage, Dean, 

Great-grandson of Reverend William Linn, D. D. ( 

1808), Chaplain 5th and 6th Battalion Pennsylvania 
Continental Infantry, February 15, 1776. 

1889. Salisbury, Richard Loomis, 209 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Abner Everett, Sussex 
Countv Militia, New Jersey. 



229 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Salter, William Tibbits, 594 

Grandson of Mariner Richard Salter Tibbits (1762- 
1821), Captain Samuel Gerrish's letter-of-marque, 
New Hampshire. 

1887. Sandford, Elliott, 

Great-grandson of Captain Thomas White, Massachu- 
setts Militia. 

Also, Grandson of Private Joseph Sandford, Massachu- 
setts Militia. 

1887. Sandford, Jared, 224 

Great-grandson of Silas Halsey, Associator, Suffolk 
County, New York. 

1889. Sands, John Augustine, 247 

Great-great-grandson of Paymaster Comfort Sands 
(1748-1834), Paymaster of Westchester, Dutchess, 
Orange and Ulster Counties Militia, April 4, 1777: 
Member of New York Committee of One Hundred, 
May, 1775; Member of New York Provincial Con- 
gress, 1775-6 ; Member of New York Committee of 
Safety, January 10, 1776; Auditor-General of the 
Colony of New York, 1776. 

1889. Sands, Louis Joseph, 337 

Great-grandson of Paymaster Comfort Sands (1748- 
1834). Paymaster of Westchester, Dutchess, Orange 
and Ulster Counties Militia, April 4, 1777; Member 
of New York Committee of One Hundred, May, 
1775; Member of New York Provincial Congress, 
1775-6; Member of New York Committee of Safety, 
January 10, 1776; Auditor-General of Colony of 
New York, 1776. 

1891. Sanford. Frederick Croswell, 726 

Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Elihu Sanford (1759- 
1839), Corporal 8th Regiment Connecticut Line, Col- 
onel John Chandler. February 16. 1777; Sei'geant in 
same, May 27, 1778; Sergeant in Captain David Doi'- 
rance's Company, 5th Regiment Connecticut Line. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Sherman, January 1, 1781. 



230 



No. of 

Insignia. 



Also, Great-grandson of Ensign Elihu Lyman (1760 

), Ensign in 17th Regiment Connecticut Line, 

Colonel Huntington, 1776 ; wounded, taken prisoner 
in Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776 ; exchanged 
May, 1778. 

1891. Sanford, George Bliss, Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. A., 624 

Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Elihu Sanford (1759- 
1839), Corporal 8th Regiment Connecticut Line, Col- 
onel John Chandler, February 16, 1777; Sergeant in 
same, May 27, 1778 ; Sergeant in Captain David Dor- 
rance's Company, 5th Regiment Connecticut Line, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Sherman, January 1, 1781. 

Also, Great-grandson of Ensign Elihu Lyman (1760 

), Ensign in 17th Regiment Connecticut Line, 

Colonel Huntington, 1776; wounded, taken prisoner 
in Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776 ; exchanged 
May, 1778. 

1891. Sanford, William Henry, 

Great-grandson of Private Jonah Sanford (1735-1817), 
Private in Captain Jesse Curtis' Company, Colonel 
Noadiah Hooker's Regiment Connecticut Militia, in 
United States Service on the Hudson, 1777. 

1888. Satterlee, Douglas Rathbone, 

Grandson of Sergeant Uriah Gregory, 12th Regiment 
Albany (Half- Moon) Militia, New York (Colonel Van 
Shoovoens). 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Benedict Satterlee 
(of Connecticut), Wyoming Militia, Pennsylvania. 

1886. Satterlee, Edward Rathbone, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant - Colonel Christopher 
Yates, 2d Regiment Albany County Militia, Colonel 
Abraham Wemple, and Deputy to 3d New York 
Provincial Congress, 1776, and Member of Committee 
of Safety. 



231 

No, of 
Insignia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel Jacob Lansing, 

Jr., 1st Regiment New York State Militia. 
Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Jacob G. Lansing, 

1st Regiment New York State Militia, Colonel Jacob 

Lansing, Jr. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Benedict Satter- 

lee (of Connecticut), Wyoming Militia, Pennsylvania. 



1886. Satterlee, F. LeRoy, M. D., 163 

Great-grandson of Robert Livingston, who gave the use 
of his foundry to the Continental Army. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Benedict Satterlee 
(of Connecticut), Wyoming Militia, Pennsylvania. 



1888. Satterlee, George B.. 

Great-grandson of Robert Livingston, who gave the use 
of his foundry to the Continental Army. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Benedict Satterlee (of 
Connecticut), Wyoming Militia, Pennsylvania. 



1886. Satterlee, Samuel K., 17 

Great-grandson of Private Benedict Satterlee (of Con- 
necticut), Wyoming Militia, Pennsylvania. 



Satterlee, Walter, 

Great-great-grandson of Robert Livingston, who gave 
the use of his foundry to the Continental Army. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Benedict Satterlee (of 
Connecticut), Wyoming Militia, Pennsylvania. 



Schenck, George Elliott Pendleton, 

Great-grandson of Captain John Schenck, (1750-1783), 
Ensign in Captain Cathcart's Company, 1st Regi- 
ment Monmouth County (New Jersey) Militia; 
Lieutenant in Captain Hunn's Company, same; 
I !aptain in same, October 12, 1777. 



232 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. SCHERMERHORN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, 663 

Great-grandson of Brevet-Colonel Ebenezer Stevens 
(1751-1823), one of "Boston Tea Party," 1773; 1st 
Lieutenant in Train Artillery in the Army of Obser- 
vation, 1775, posted on Boston Neck during the 
action at Bunker's Hill, 1775, Captain Massachusetts 
Artillery, 1775; Captain Knox's Artillery, 1775; de- 
tached to succour Arnold's Expedition against Que- 
bec, 1776 ; Major in Artillery, 1776 ; in command of 
Artillery at Ticonderoga, 1777 ; in command of Artil- 
lery at Stillwater and Saratoga; brevetted Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel of Foot by Congress, 1778 ; Lieutenant- 
Colonel Artillery, 1778 (Lamb's) ; in command of 
Artillery Southern Expedition, 1781; one of the 
three alternate commanders of Artillery in the 
trenches before Yorktown, 1781; brevetted Colonel 
at close of war. 

1889. SCHOONMAKER, LUCAS ELMENDORF, 

Grandson of Captain Frederick Schoonmaker, Cap- 
tain of Mounted Volunteers, Ulster County (New 
York) Militia, October 25, 1775; Captain in 3d 
Regiment Ulster County Militia, Colonel Pawling, 
February 25, 1778. 

1890. Schuyler, Philip, 405 

Great-great-grandson of Major-General Philip Schuyler 
(1733-1804), Major-General Continental Army, 1775: 
resigned 1779; Delegate to Continental Congress, 
1775-7; Member New York Provincial Congress. 
1778-9; Member New York State Senate, 1781-4. 

Also, Great-grandson of Brevet-Colonel Alexander 
Hamilton (1757-1804), Captain of New York Pro- 
vincial Artillery, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel and 
Aide-de-Camp to the Commander-in-Chief, 1777; 
Colonel by brevet at close of war. 

1886. Schuyler, Spencer D., 

Great-grandson of Colonel Philip P. Schuyler, 3d Regi- 
ment Rensselaer Battalion New York Militia. 



238 

Elected. 

1890. Seaman, Alfred P. W., 

Great-grandson of 2d Lieutenant Daniel Searing 
(1759-1833), Captain Sneden's Company, Westchester 
County Militia, New York, March 9, 1776. 

1886. Seely, Henry W., 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Sylvauus Seeley. Cap- 
tain Colonel Martin's Battalion "Heard's" Brigade 
New Jersey Militia, 1776; Captain Eastern Battalion 
Morris County Militia. 1777; Major of same, 1777; 
Colonel of same, 1777, and Colonel of Battalion of 
State Troops. 

1890. Sheldon, George Rumsey, 358 

Great-gi*andson of Sergeant.Tob Sheldon, Colonel Olney's 
Regiment, Rhode Island Line. 

1886. Sheldon, William Crawford, Jr., 30 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Job Sheldon, Colonel Olney's 
Regiment, Rhode Island Line. 

1890. Shelton, George Gregory, M. D., 489 

Great - great - grandson of Private Elijah Gregory, 
served with Wooster's Brigade in Westchester 
County (New York) Militia, 1776; Private in Cap- 
tain Jabez Gregory's Company, 9th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, killed in acton near West Point, 
1777. 

1890. Shelton, William Atwood, 

Great - great - grandson of Private Elijah Gregory, 
served with Wooster's Brigade in Westchester 
County (New York) Militia, 1776; Private in Cap- 
tain Jabez Gregory's Company, 9th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, killed in action near West Point, 
1777. 

1891. Sherman, Benjamin Prescott, 661 

Grandson of Roger Sherman (1721-1793), Member of 
Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1775-89; 
Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 



234 

No. of 
'iSiected. Insignia. 

1889. Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock. Jr.. 

Great-grandson of Dirck Wynkoop, Associator, Ulster 
County, New York, 1775; Member of New York 
Provincial Congress, 1775-6; Judge of Court of 
Common Pleas, 1777; Member of New York Assem- 
bly, 1780-1. 

1887. Short, Edward Lyman, 775 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Elilm Lyman, Private in 
Captain Eldad Wright's Company of Minute Men 
that marched from Nortbfleld and Warwick, Massa- 
chusetts, to Cambridge, April 20, 1775; 1st Lieu- 
teuant Captain Ephraim Burr's Company, 21st Regi 
ment Continental Infantry, Colonel John Ward. 

1884. Shrady, Jacob, 

Grandson of Private John J. Schreder, Private in 
Captain De Witt's Company, 3d Regiment New York 
Line, Colonel Gansevoort, 1778; transferred to 1st 
Regiment New York Line, Colonel Van Schaick; 
served to close of war. 

1884. Shrady, John, M. D., 257 

Grandson of Private John J. Schreder, Private in 
Captain De Witt's Company, 3d Regiment New York 
Line, Colonel Gansevoort, 1778; transferred to 1st 
Regiment New York Line, Colonel Van Schaick; 
served to close of war. 

1884. Shrady, William, 

Grandson of Private John J. Schreder, Private in 
Captain De Witt's Company, 3d Regiment New York 
Line, Colonel Gansevoort, 1778; transferred to 1st 
Regiment New York Line, Colonel Van Schaick; 
served to close of war. 

3890. Shurtleff, Roswell Morse, 

Grandson of Private Asahel Shurtleff (1757-1830), Cap- 
tain Jonathan Parker's Company, 3d Battalion Con- 
necticut State Troops, Colonel Sage (Wadsworth's 
Brigade). June. 1 770 . 



235 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1886. Sillcock, John J., 198 

Great-grandson of Private Joseph Sillcocks, Middlesex 
County Militia, New Jersey. 

1889. Sillcocks, Theodore Wyckoff, 741 

Great-grandson of Private Gabriel Sillcocks (1752-1825), 
Captain Luce's Company, 2d Battalion. 2d Establish- 
ment, Continental Army, New Jersey. 

1889. Sillcocks, Warren Scott, 742 

Grandson of Private Gabriel Sillcocks (1752-1825), Cap- 
tain Luce's Company, 2d Batallion, 2d Establishment, 
Continental Army, New Jersey. 

1889. Sillcocks, Warren Scott, Jr., 

Great-grandson of Private Gabriel Sillcocks (1752-1825), 
Captain Luce's Company, 2d Battalion, 2d Establish- 
ment, Continental Army, New Jersey. 

1891. Silliman, Benjamin Douglas, 502 

Grandson of Brigadier-General Gold Selleck Silliman 
(1732-1790), Colonel 4th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
1775; Colonel 1st Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Wadsworth's Brigade, 1776: Colonel Connecticut 
Light Horse Militia, 1776: Brigadier-General 4th 
Brigade Connecticut Militia, 1776; resigned January 
1781, but served continuously on alarms to close of 
war ; captured, 1779 ; held prisoner on Long Island 
until exchanged for the Loyalist Judge Jones, Janu- 
ary, 1782. 

1889. Sinclair, George Terry, 

Great- great-grandson of Private Robert Kennon, 5th 
Regiment Line, Virginia. 

1890. Skillman, Francis, 312 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Skillman (1736- 
1814), Captain Titus's Company, Kings County Militia, 
New York. 



236 



Also, Great-grandson of Ensign Martin Schenck (1743- 
1792), Captain Johnson's Company, Kings County 
Militia, New York. 

Also, Great-grandson of Adrian Onderdonck (1726-1791). 
Queens County Committee of Safety, New York. 

1889. Slade, Henry Lewis, 

Great-grandson of Private James Thomas (1737-1794), 
Captain Benedict Arnold's Company, 1st Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, Colonel Wooster, May 25, 1775 ; 
marched to seige of Boston. 

1892. Slade, William Gerry, 776 

Great-grandson of Private Joseph Dale (1731-1801), 
Captain Samuel Reed's Company, Colonel William 
Prescott's Regiment Massachusetts Minute Men, 
"Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775. 

1891. Slauson, Alfred T., 614 

Great-grandson of Major Ebenezer Slauson, Colonel 
Joseph Drake's Regiment Westchester County 
Minute Men, February 22, 1776 ; Captain and Major 
in Colonel Joseph Benedict's Regiment Westchester 
County Associated Exempts, October 19, 1779. 

1891. Slocum, Herbert Jermain, Lieutenant U. S. A.. 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Samuel L'Hommedieu 
(1744-1834), 8th Company, 2d Regiment Suffolk 
County (New York) Militia, August 27, 1776 ; served 
in Battle of Long Island. 



1891. Slocum, Stephen L'Hommedieu, Lieutenant U. S. A., 613 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Samuel L'Hommedieu 
(1744-1834), 8th Company, 2d Regiment Suffolk 
County (New York) Militia, August 27, 1776 ; served 
in Battle of Long Island. 



237 

m , No - of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Smedberg, Edmund Morton, 309 

Great-great-gi'andson of Colonel Charles Rumsey 
(1736-1780), County Lieutenant Cecil County Militia, 
Maryland, 1777; Colonel of "Elk" Battalion Cecil 
County Militia. 1776 ; Member Maryland Convention, 
1775; Member Maryland Council of Safety, 1776. 

1890. Smith, Andrew Heermance, M. D., 529 

Great-grandson of Captain Jacob Hermance (1717- 
1784), 3d Regiment New York Levies, Colonel Morris 
Graham, 1780; previously (July 1, 1780), Lieutenant 
in Colonel Lewis Dubois' Eegiment New York 
Levies. 

1889. Smith, Andrew Kingsbury (Colonel U. S. A.), 271 

Grandson of Private Andrew Kingsbury, Private in 
Captain Brigham's Company 8th Regiment Con- 
necticut Line, Colonel Chandler, April 28, 1777; 
transferred to the General Hospital Department 
where he served as Clerk ; appointed Storekeeper in 
Continental Surgeons' Department, December 15, 
1778; appointed 1st Clerk in the office of Deputy- 
Quartermaster-General Ralph Pomeroy, May, 1781, 
where he served to close of war. 

1891. Smith, Augustus Coleman, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Elihu Hall 
(1723-1790), 2d Major of Susquehanna Battalion 
Maryland Militia, January 6, 1776 ; later Lieutenant- 
Colonel Maryland Militia. 

1890. Smith, George Putnam, 517 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Joseph 
Palmer (1718-1788), Member of Massachusetts Pro- 
vincial Congress, 1774-5; Member of Massachusetts 
Committee of Safety, 1775; Quartermaster-General 
Massachusetts Militia, 1775; Colonel 5th Regiment 
Suffolk County Militia, February 6, 1776; Brigadier- 
General Massachusetts Militia. May 9, 1771*. 



238 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Smith, Gouverneur Mather, M. D., 456 

Great-grandson of Dr. Samuel Mather (1739-1814), of 
Connecticut, in medical service Connecticut Militia in 
New Jersey, 1776; also Captain Connecticut Militia, 
1776. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Dr. Eleazar Mather, ap- 
pointed by the General Assembly of Connecticut on 
a Committee to examine candidates to serve as Sur- 
geons or Surgeon's Mates in the Continental Army 
or Navy, October, 1776. 

1890. Smith, Henry Cole. 434 

Great-great-grandson of Corporal Noah Smith (1704- 
1793), Corporal in Captain Seymour's Company 9th 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel John Mead, 
January 24, 1776: Private in Captain Eliphalet's 
Company, Connecticut Coast Guards, March 16, 
1780; Private in 7th Regiment Connecticut Line, 
Colonel Hemaii Swift. July 24. 1780. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Stephen 
Dodge (1732-1812), Ensign in Captain Amos Chap- 
pell's Company 1st Battalion Connecticut State 
Troops, Colonel Samuel Whiting, November 1776; 2d 
Lieutenant in Colonel Roger Enos' Regiment Con- 
necticut State Troops, June, 1777; Lieutenant in 
Connecticut Provisional State Troops, 1781. 

1887. Smith, Reverend J. Tuttle, D. Z).. 219 

Grandson of Private Benjamin Smith, 4th Company, 
4th Regiment, New York Line, Colonel Henry B. 
Livingston. 

1890. Smith. Lewis Bayard, 459 

Great-grandson of Dr. Samuel Mather (1739-1814), of 
Connecticut, in medical service Connecticut Militia in 
New Jersey, 1776 ; also Captain Connecticut Militia, 
1776. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Dr. Eleazar Mather, ap- 
pointed by the General Assembly of Connecticut on 
a Committee to examine candidates to serve as Sur- 
geons or Surgeon's Mates in the Continental Army 
or Navy, October, 1776. 



239 

No. of 

Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Smith, Thomas Charles, 699 

Great-grandson of Private Amos Morris (1726-1801), 
Captain William Van Duersen's Company Connecti- 
cut State Guards, on duty at New Haven during the 
"Alarm," 1781. 



1891. Smith, Thomas Edward Vermilye, 

Great-grandson of Ebenezer Hazard (1745-1817), 
Postmaster of the District of New York, October 5, 
1775; Surveyor of the General Post Offices of the 
United States, 1777-82; Postmaster-General of the 
United States, January 28, 1782, to September 29, 
1789. 

1884. Smith, Thomas West, 151 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Michael Smith, Private in 
Captain Beekman's Company New York Militia, Col- 
onel John Lasher, 1775 ; Sergeant in same Eegiment, 
1776 ; served throughout the war. 

1890. Smith, William Alexander, 369 

Grandson of Captain Robert Smith (1752-1838), Mal- 
colm's 1st Regiment New York City Militia, Colonel 
Malcolm. 

1891. Sniffen, Elisha, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas 
Tillinghast (1742-1821), Major Kent County (Rhode 
Island) Militia, 1776 ; Recruiting Officer Rhode Island 
Militia, August, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel 1st Regi- 
ment Kent County Militia, May, 1778, to May, 1781 ; 
Member of Rhode Island Assembly, 1772-9 ; Member 
of Rhode Island Council of War, 1779. 

1891. Spining, Rev. George Lawrence, D. D., 630 

Grandson of Private Isaac Spining, (1759-1825), Cap- 
tain Harriman's Company, 1st Regiment Essex 
County (New Jersey) Militia, and Private 1st Bat- 
talion 2d Establishment New Jersey Line. 



240 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1887. Sprague, Charles E., 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Sinies Edgerton, Private 
4th Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel John Dur- 
kee, 1780 ; Sergeant Captain Charles Miel's Company, 
1st Battalion (Major Edward Sliipman) Waterbury's 
State Brigade, Connecticut Militia, 1781. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain Elisha Avery, Private 
Norwich Militia, " Lexington Alarm," 1775: Private 
in Captain Parsons' Company, 6th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, 1775; Corporal 1st Regiment Con- 
necticut Line, Colonel Jedediah Huntington, 1777; 
Captain Connecticut Militia under Colonel Ledyard, 
killed at Fort Griswold, September 6, 1781. 



1886. Squier, Frank, 124 

Grandson of Sergeant Ephraim Squier (1747 ), Pri- 
vate Captain Thomas Knowlton's Company (from 
Ashford) Connecticut Militia, "Lexington Alarm," 
1775; served in the Artillery at " Bunker Hill," 1775; 
served with Arnold's Expedition to Canada, 1775-6 ; 
Sergeant Captain Isaac Stone's Company, Colonel 
Jonathan Latimer's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Poors Brigade at "Saratoga," 1777. 

1891. Staats. John Henry. 640 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Philip Staats (1747-1822), 
Captain Nicholas Staats' Company, 3d Regiment Al- 
bany County Militia, Colonel Killian Van Rensselaer, 
October 20, 1775. 

1889. Stafford, Martin H., 43 

Great-grandson of Private Ichabod Stafford, Rhode Isl- 
and Militia. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Private William Stafford 
(1712-1803), Colonel John Topham's Regiment Rhode 
Island Militia, May, 1775, to 1778. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Abel Hawley (1750- 
1836), Captain James Stoddard's Company, Colonel 
Noadiah Hooker's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Mav, 1777. 



241 

No. of 
Insignia. 

1889. Stafford, William Frederick, 65 

Great-grandson of Private Ichabod Stafford, Rhode 

Island Militia. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Private William Stafford 

(1713-1803), Colonel John Topham's Regiment Rhode 

Island Militia. May, 1775, to 1778. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Abel Hawley (1750- 

1836), Captain James Stoddard's Company, Colonel 

Noadiah Hooker's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 

May, 1777. 

1886. Stanton, F. McMillan, 85 

Great-great-grandson of Private Benjamin Westervelt, 

2d New York Militia. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Benjamin Westervelt, 
Jr., 2d New York Militia. 

1891. Stanton, Henry, 559 

Great-grandson of Colonel James Livingston (1747- 
1832), Colonel of " Additional " Continental Infantry, 
March 20, 1775, to 1781, on active service in Canada 
and on the Hudson ; Member of New York Provin- 
cial Congress, 1775-6 ; Chairman Dutchess County 
Committee of Safety. 

1884. Stanton, John R., 185 

Great-great-grandson of Private Benjamin Westervelt, 

2d New York Militia. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Benjamin Westervelt, 

Jr., 2d New York Militia. 

1890. Stanton, Stiles Franklin, 773 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Peter Tappan (1764- 
1846), 1st Lieutenant in Captain John Schenck's 
Company of Poughkeepsie Minute Men, October 17, 
1775 ; 2d Lieutenant in 2d Regiment Continental 
Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, August 21, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Major Christopher Tap- 
pan "Northern" Regiment of Minute Men, Ulster 
County, Colonel DeWitt, and Member of New York 
Provincial Congress, 1775. 



242 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Steele, Joseph Selden, 

Great-great-great-grandson of Private Ebenezer Steele 
(1727-1821). in Captain Abraham Sedgwick's Company 
Connecticut Militia; served around New York, 1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Josiah Steele 
(1758-1825), in Captain William Judd's Company, 3d 
Regiment Connecticut Line. Colonel Wyllys, April 
20, 1777. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel Samuel Selden. 
Sr. (1723-1776), Colonel of 4th Battalion, Wads- 
worth's Brigade Connecticut Militia, June 20, 1776 : 
taken prisoner in retreat from New York, September 
15, 1776 ; died while prisoner in New York, October 
11, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Selden, Jr. 
(1748-1819), Lieutenant in Connecticut Militia Re- 
serve; called into active service on the Hudson 
under Colonel Samuel Canfield, September and Octo- 
ber, 1781. 

1888. Stevens, Alexander Henry, 

Grandson of Brevet Colonel Ebenezer Stevens (1751- 
1823), one of "Boston Tea Party," 1773; 1st Lieuten- 
ant in Train Artillery in the Army of Observation, 
1775, posted on Boston Neck during the action at 
Bunker's Hill, 1775: Captain in Massachusetts Artil- 
lery, 1775; Captain in Knox's Artillery, 1775; de- 
tached to succour Arnold's Expedition against Quebec, 
1776 ; Major in Artillery, 1776 : in command of Artil- 
lery at Ticonderoga, 1777; in command of Artillery 
at Stillwater and Saratoga; brevetted Lieutenant- 
Colonel of Foot by Congress, 1778 ; Lieutenant-Colonel 
in 2d Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery. 
Colonel Lamb, 1778; in command of Artillery in 
Southern Expedition, 1781; one of three alternate 
commanders of Artillery in the trenches before 
Yorktown, 1781 ; brevetted Colonel at close of war. 

Also, Great-grandson of Colonel William Perkins, 
Captain in Knox's Regiment Artillery, 1776 ; Captain 
in Colonel Crane's Regiment Artillery, 1777; later 
Colonel commanding the Castle in Boston Harbor. 



243 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1870. Stevens, John Austin, 

Grandson of Brevet Colonel Ebenezer Stevens (1751- 
1823), one of "Boston Tea Party," 1773: 1st Lieuten- 
ant in Train Artillery in the Army of Observation, 
1775, posted on Boston Neck during the action at 
Bunker's Hill, 1775 ; Captain in Massachusetts Artil- 
lery, 1775; Captain in Knox's Artillery, 1775; de- 
tached to succour Arnold's Expedition against Quebec, 
1770: Major in Artillery, 1776; in command of Artil- 
lery at Ticonderoga, 1777: in command of Artillery 
at Stillwater and Saratoga; brevetted Lieutenant- 
Colonel of Foot by Congress, 1778 ; Lieutenant-Colonel 
in 2d Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery, 
Colonel Lamb, 1778: in command of Artillery in 
Southern Expedition, 1781; one of three alternate 
commanders of Artillery in the trenches befoi*e 
Yorktown, 1781 ; brevetted Colonel at close of war. 
Also. Great-grandson of Colonel William Perkins, 
Captain in Knox's Regiment Artillery, 1770 ; Cap- 
tain in Colonel Crane's Regiment Artillery, 1777; 
later. Colonel commanding the Castle in Boston 
Harbor. 

189(i. Stevenson, William Paxton, 478 

Great-great-grandson of Captain John Paxton (1740- 
L823), Captain Associated Company Pennsylvania 
Militia, September 11, 1776; Captain 2d Lancaster 
Baltalion Pennsylvania Militia, 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of First Lieutenant Joseph 
Stevenson, 8th Company, 6th Battalion Cumberland 
County (Pennsylvania) Associators. Colonel Samuel 
Culbertson. July 31. 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of First Lieutenant Alexander 
Russell (1758-1836), 2d Lieutenant 7th Regiment 
Pennsylvania Continental Infantry, Colonel William 
Irvine. January, 1777 : promoted 1st Lieutenant 
same, September 1, 1777. 

Also, Ch-eat-great-grandson of Colonel Robert McPher- 

son ( 1789), Colonel of 2d Battalion York County 

(Pennsylvania) Militia, July 28, 1775, and Member 
of Pennsylvania Convention, 1776. 



244 



ETectei 



No. of 
Insignia. 



Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel James Dunlop 
(1727-1821), Major 6th Battalion Pennsylvania Line, 
Colonel Irvine, January 10, 1776 ; Lieutena tit-Colonel 
10th Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel Joseph 
Penrose, October 25, 1776; Colonel 1st Battalion 
Cumberland County Associators, July 31, 1777; 
Lieutenant-Colonel 6th Battalion Cumberland 
County Associators, May 10, 1780. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain William Miller 
(1755-1831), Ensign in Captain Hays' Company 8th 
Battalion Pennsylvania Line, January 9, 1776; 1st 
Lieutenant 7th Regiment Pennsylvania Line, Colonel 
William Irvine, March 20, 1777; Captain Lieutenant 
same, February 2, 1778 ; Captain same, October 17, 1779. 

1889. Stillman, Thomas Bliss, 109 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Jesse Starr ( 1798), 

Private in 10th Company, Captain Abel Spicer, 6th 
Regiment Connecticut Line, Colonel Parsons, May 
8, 1776; Corporal in Captain Gallup's Company, 
same Regiment, November 6, 1776; Corporal in 
Captain Wooster's Company, Colonel S. B. Webb's 
Regiment "Additional Continental" Infantry, April 
23, 1777; promoted Sergeant October 9, 1778; en- 
listed in Naval Service May 30, 1782 ; taken prisoner 
June 7, 1782; released August 20, 1783. 

Also, Great-great-gi'andson of Private Vine Starr 
(1716-1799), Private in Captain Joseph Gallup's Com- 
pany, 8th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant- 
Colonel Oliver Smith, September 8, 1776; Private in 
Captain Eliphaz Kingsley's Company, Colonel 
Jedutha Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers, Conti- 
nental Army. 

1891. Stokes, William Earl Dodge, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Phelps, Sergeant 
in 7th Company, Captain Abel Pettibone, 2d Regi- 
ment Continental Line, Colonel John Spencer, May 4, 
1775 ; Ensign in 22d Regiment Continental Infantry, 
Colonel Wyllys, 1776 ; Lieutenant in Captain Jarius 
Willcox's Company, Colonel Jedutha Baldwin's Regi- 
ment of Artificers, Continental Army, July 24, 1777. 



245 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1884. Stone, William, 

Grandson of Sergeant Jonathan Stone, Sergeant in 
Captain Henry Farwell's Company of Minute Men, 
Colonel William Prescott's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia; marched from Groton to Lexington April 
19, 1775 ; Corporal in Captain Aaron JeAvitt's Com- 
pany, Colonel Samuel Bullard's Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Militia, 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Solomon Stone, Cap- 
tain Bowker's Company, Colonel Webb's Regiment 
Massachusetts Militia; raised to reinforce the Con- 
tinental Army, 1781. 

1891. Stone, William Coolidge, M. Z>., 612 

Great-grandson of Private Jonathan Coolidge (1750- 
1810), Captain Frothingham's Company, 3d Regiment 
Continental Corps of Artillery, Massachusetts, May, 
1777 ; Private in Watertown (Massachusetts) Militia ; 
served with Continental Army, July 4, 1780. 

1887. *Storm, Thomas (died May 1, 1890), 

Grandson of Adjutant Thomas Storm, Adjutant 2d 
Regiment Dutchess County Militia, New York, Colo- 
nel Dirck Brinckeroff , 1775 ; Captain in same. Colonel 
Abraham Brinckeroff, 1778; Member of Dutchess 
County Committee of Safety, 1776-7: Member of 
New York Assembly, 1784. 

1887. Storm, Walton, 

Great-grandson of Adjutant Thomas Storm, Adjutant 
2d Regiment Dutchess County Militia, New York, 
Colonel Dirck Brinckerhoff, 1775; Captain in same, 
Colonel Abraham Brinckerhoff, 1778; Member of 
Dutchess County Committee of Safety, 1776-7 ; Mem- 
ber of New York Assembly, 1784. 

1891. Stout, Frederick Aquila, 

Grandson of Lieutenant William Walton Morris, 2d 
Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery, Colonel 
Lamb, August 21, 1785. 



246 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lewis Morris (1726-1798), 
Brigadier-General Westchester County Militia, 1776; 
Delegate to Continental Congress, 1774-7 ; Signer of 
the Declaration of Independence. 

1889. Stow, George Grannis, 552 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas El wood, Pri- 
vate in Captain David Dimon's Company of Minute 
Men, that marched from Fairfield to the relief of 
Boston, on Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775 ; Private 
in Captain Dimon's Company, 5th Regiment Con- 
necticut Line, Colonel David Waterbury, May 10. 
1775; Lieutenant of Marines on frigate ''Alliance," 
32 guns. Captain Peter Landais, afterwards Captain 
Barry, August 24. 1778; retired from service. May 1, 
1783.' 

1889. Stow, William Lewis, 237 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas El wood, Private 
in Captain David Dimon's Company of Minute Men, 
that marched from Fairfield to the relief of Boston 
on Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775: Private in Cap- 
tain Dimon's Company, 5th Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Colonel David Waterbury, May 10, 1775 ; Lieu- 
tenant of Marines on frigate "Alliance.'' 32 guns, 
Captain Peter Landais, afterwards Captain Barry, 
August 24. 1778; retired from service May 1, 1783. 

1891. Strong, James Henry Ward, 

Great-grandson of Captain Selah Strong, Captain 3d 
Regiment Suffolk County Minute Men, Colonel Scud- 
der, April 4, 1776; Captain in Colonel Josiah Smith's 
Regiment Suffolk County Militia, May 20, 1776: 
Member New York Provincial Congress, 1775-6. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Major Nathan Woodhull 
(1720-1804). 1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, 
New York. 

1889. Strong, J. Montgomery, Jr., 301 

Great-grandson of Philip Livingston (1716-1778), Signer 
of the Declaration of Independence, New York. 



247 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Strong, James Remsen, 806 

Great-grandson of Captain Selah Strong, Captain 3d 
Regiment Suffolk County Minute Men, New York, 
Colonel Scudder, April 4, 1776; Captain in Colonel 
Josiah Smith's Regiment Suffolk County Militia, 
May 20, 1776 ; Member New York Provincial Con- 
gress, 1775-6. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Major Nathan Woodhull 
(1720-1804), 1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, 
New York. 

1889. Strong, Murray Hoffman, 

Great-grandson of Captain Selah Strong, Captain 3d 
Regiment Suffolk County Minute Men, New York, 
Colonel Scudder, April 4, 1776 ; Captain in Colonel 
Josiah Smith's Regiment Suffolk County Militia, 
May 20, 1776; Member New York Provincial Con- 
gress, 1775-6. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Major Nathan Woodhull 
(1720-1804), 1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, 
New York. 

1886. Strong, Theron G, 

Great-grandson of Commissary Adonijah Strong, Colo- 
nel Burrall's Regiment Connecticut Militia, and Lieu- 
tenant, Captain John Bigelow's Company, Connecti- 
cut Artillery. 

1889. Strong, Wilson Budd, 235 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant David Lyman, Cap- 
tain Jonathan Wales's Company, Colonel Dickinson's 
Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, August 17, 1777; 
previously Lieutenant Massachusetts Militia, 1776; 
Aide-cle-Camp, 1780. 

1890. Sutherland, John Lansing, 

Grandson of Lieutenant John Lansing, Jr. (1754-1829), 
1st Battalion New York Line, Colonel Goose Van 
Schaick, November 21, 1776, and Adjutant 3d Regi- 
ment, Tryon County Militia, Colonel Fisher, New 
York, 1779. 



248 

No. of 
Elected . Insignia. 

1886. Suydam, John 11, 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General Nathaniel 
Woodhull (1722-1776), Colonel Long Island Militia. 
1775; Brigadier-General same, 1776; Member New 
York Provincial Congress, 1775 ; President of same, 
1776 ; died of wounds received in action at Jamaica, 
Long Island, September 20, 1776. 



Swan, Benjamin L., Jr., 212 

Great-grandson of Private Samuel Swan, Private in 
Captain William Adams' Company, Colonel Thatcher's 
Eegiment Massachusetts Militia, March, 1776. 



1889. Swan, Frederick George, 213 

Great-grandson of Private Samuel Swan, Private in Cap- 
tain William Adams' Company, Colonel Thatcher's 
Regiment Massachusetts Militia, March, 1776. 



1891. SWARTWOUT, EOERTON, 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Abraham Swartwout, 
3d Regiment New York Line, Colonel Gansevoort. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Private Benedict 
Satterlee (of Connecticut), Wyoming Militia, Pennsyl- 



1888. Swartwout, John H., ,19 

Great-grandson of Captain Abraham Swartwout, Cap- 
tain in 4th Regiment Dutchess County Militia, New 
York, 1776; Captain 3d Battalion New York Line, 
Colonel Gansevoort, 1776; Captain 4th Battalion 
New York Line, Colonel Gansevoort, 1778; Captain 
Dutchess County Associated Exempts, 1778. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Benedict Satter- 
lee (of Connecticut), Wyoming Militia, Pennsylvania. 



249 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1887. Swartwout, Satterlee, 31 

Great-grandson of Captain Abraham Swartwout, Cap- 
tain in 4th Regiment Dutchess County Militia, New 
York, 1776; Captain 3d Battalion New York Line, 
Colonel Gansevoort, 1776; Captain 4th Battalion 
New York Line, Colonel Gansevoort, 1778 ; Captain 
Dutchess County Associated Exempts, 1778. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Benedict Satter- 
lee (of Connecticut), Wyoming Militia, Pennsylvania. 

1890. Swift, Edwin E., M. D., 

Great -great -grandson of Brigadier - General Heman 
■ Swift, Colonel of State Battalion, raised for service 
at Ticonderoga, July, 1776; Colonel 7th Regiment 
Connecticut Line, January 1. 1777 ; Colonel 2d Regi- 
ment Connecticut Line, October, 1781. to close of 
war; Brigadier-General by brevet at close of war; 
Member of Connecticut Assembly, 1775. 

1889. Swift, Moses Robinson, 

Great-grandson of Colonel Moses Robinson (1774 ), 

Colonel Vermont Militia, July, 1777; Member of 
Council of Safety, 1777-8; Chief -Justice of Supreme 
Court, 1778-84. 

1890. Swords, Henry Cotheal, 

Great-grandson of Private Isaac Cotheal (1743-1812), 
4th Battalion, 2d Establishment, New Jersey Line, 
wounded and taken prisoner at Woodbridge, April 
19, 1777 ; served thirteen months in New York prison ; 
honorably discharged, May 1, 1778, on account of 
wounds. 



1890. Taggart, William Rush, 371 

Great-grandson of Private William McGahey ( 

1827), Captain Thomas Church's Company, 4th Penn- 
sylvania Battalion, Colonel Anthony Wayne, 1776. 



250 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Talbot, Charles Nicoll, 359 

Great-grandson of Captain Silas Talbot ( 1813), 

Lieutenant in Captain Levi Tower's Company Rhode 
Island Army of Observation, 1775 ; Captain 1st Bat- 
talion Rhode Island Militia, Colonel Varnum, 1776; 
Captain 11th Regiment Rhode Island Continental In- 
fantry, Colonel Hitchcock, 1776 ; Major Continental 
Army, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel Continental Army, 
1778; Captain Continental Navy, 1779, in command 
of sloop "Argos;" was shot twice through the thigh 
and wrist in engagement at Fort Mifflin, October, 
1777; shot through the knee in engagement with 
British privateers "Dragon'' and "Hannah," 1779. 

1891. Talbot, Robert Bancker, M. ZX, 

Great-grandson of Captain Silas Talbot ( 1813), 

Lieutenant in Captain Levi Tower's Company Rhode 
Island Army of Observation, 1775 ; Captain 1st Bat- 
talion Rhode Island Militia, Colonel Varnum, 1776 ; 
Captain 11th Regiment Rhode Island Continental In- 
fantry, Colonel Hitchcock, 1776; Major Continental 
Army, 1777 ; Lieutenant-Colonel Continental Army, 
1778; Captain Continental Navy, 1779, in command 
of sloop ' ' Argos ;" was shot twice through the thigh 
and wrist in engagement at Fort Mifflin, October, 
1777; shot through the knee in engagement with 
British privateers "Dragon" and "Hannah," 1779. 

1887. Talbot, Theodore B., 

Great-grandson of Captain Silas Talbot ( 1813), 

Lieutenant in Captain Levi Tower's Company, Rhode 
Island Army of Observation, 1775 ; Captain 1st Bat- 
talion Rhode Island Militia, Colonel Varnum, 1776; 
Captain 11th Regiment Rhode Island Continental 
Infantry, Colonel Hitchcock, 1776; Major Conti- 
nental Army, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel Continental 
Army, 1778; Captain Continental Navy, 1779, in 
command of sloop " Argos;" was shot twice through 
the thigh and wrist in engagement at Fort Mifflin, 
October, 1777; shot through the knee in engagement 
Avith British privateers "Dragon" and "Hannah," 1779. 



251 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1883. Tallmadge, Frederick Samuel, 4 & 473 

Grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Ben- 
jamin Tallmadge (1754-1835), Captain, 1776; Major in 
Sheldon's Light Dragoons, 1777; conducted "Secret 
Service'" for the Commander-in-Chief; captured Fort 
George, Long Island, November 21, 1780, and re- 
ceived special notice of Congress; Lieutenant-Col- 
onel by brevet, 1783. 
Also, Great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), 
Signer of Declaration of Independence, and Colonel 
1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York, 
1775. 

1889. Tallmadge, Henry Overing, 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier and Brevet Major- 
General George Clinton (1739-1812), Brigadier- Gen- 
eral Continental Army, 1776 ; Member of Continental 
Congress, 1775 ; Governor of New York, 1777-95 ; 
Major-General by brevet. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant- 
Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835), Captain, 
1776; Major Sheldon's Light Dragoons, 1777; con- 
ducted " Secret Service '' for the Commander-in- 
Chief; captured Fort George, Long Island, November 
21, 1780, and received special notice of Congress; 
Lieutenaut-Colonel by brevet, 1783. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734- 
1821), Signer of Declaration of Independence, and 
Colonel 1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New 
York, 1775. 

1885. *Tapp, Edward William (died February 3, 1888), 

Grandson of Lieutenant William Tapp (1750-1796), 
Ensign 5th Company 1st Regiment New York Line, 
Colonel McDougal, 1775; 2d Lieutenant and Quarter- 
master same Regiment, 1775 ; 2d Lieutenant in Col- 
onel Nicholson's Regiment, on service in Canada, 
1776; 1st Lieutenant Captain Thomas DeWitt's 
Company 3d Battalion New York Line, Colonel 
Peter Gansevoort, 1776 ; resigned March 20, 1780. 



252 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Tapp, Edward Wright, 258 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant William Tapp (1750- 
1796), Ensign 5th Company 1st Regiment New York 
Line, Colonel McDougal, 1775; 2d Lieutenant and 
Quartermaster same Regiment, 1775 ; 2d Lieutenant 
in Colonel Nicholson's Regiment, on service in Can- 
ada, 1776 : 1st Lieutenant Captain Thomas DeWitt's 
Company 3d Battalion New York Line, Colonel 
Peter Gansevoort, 1776; resigned March 20, 1780. 
Also, Great-grandson of Matross Daniel Whitehead 
(1751-1824), Captain Daniel Neil's Eastern Company 
of Artillery, New Jersey State Troops. 



1890. Taylor, Arthur Wilson, M. D. (Captain and Assistant- 
Surgeon, U. S. A.), 765 
Great-grandson of Corporal Jonathan Taylor (1739- 
1816), Captain Chase Taylor's Company, Colonel 
Thomas Stickney's Regiment Vermont Militia, 
"Stark's" Brigade, on service at Ticonderoga, July, 
1777. 

1889. Taylor, Francis Bergh, 

Great-grandson of Private Joseph Moringault, South 
Carolina Artillery, at seige and capitulation of 
Charleston, May, 1780. 



1887. Taylor, Samuel R., 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Benjamin Vail, Orange 
County (New York) Militia, killed at Minisink, Del- 
aware County, July 22, 1779. 

1889. Taylor, Sutherland Gazzam, 204 

Great-grandson of Brigadier and Brevet Major-General 
George Clinton (1739-1812), Brigadier-General Conti- 
nental Army, 1776; Member of Continental Con- 
gress, 1775; Governor of New York, 1777-95; 
Major-General by brevet. 



253 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Taylor, W. Irving, 764 

Great-grandson of Corporal Jonathan Taylor (1739- 
1816), Captain Chase Taylor's Company, Colonel 
Thomas Stickney's Regiment Vermont Militia, 
" Stai'k's" Brigade, on service at Ticonderoga, July, 
1777. 



1891. Terry, Wyllys, 516 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Nathaniel Terry 
(1730-1792), Major of Enfield Company Connecticut 
Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel 19th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
December, 1776; Colonel of same, May, 1777; Mem- 
ber of Connecticut Assembly, 1776. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Major Nathaniel Sartell 
Prentice, Captain 3d Company 16th Regiment New 
Hampshire Militia, Colonel Bellows, March 5, 1776; 
elected Major in Colonel Nahum Baldwin's New 
Hampshire Regiment, September 17, 1776, but did 
not serve ; Member New Hampshire Provincial Con- 
gress, 1776. 



1891. Thomas, Frederic Chicester, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Winter (1757- 
1820), 13th Beat Company, Captain Benjamin Carpen- 
ter, New York City Militia, August 29, 1775, and 
Secretary New York Committee of Safety, 1776. 



1891. Thomas, Theodore, 515 

Grandson of Captain Anthony Cuthbert (1751-1832), 6th 
Company Artillery, Philadelphia City Militia, April 
15, 1780. 



1883. Thompson, Alexander R., Jr., 246 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Alexander Thompson, 
2d Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery, New 
York, Colonel Lamb. 



254 

No. of 
ESeeted. Insignia,. 

1891. Thompson, Augustus Annin, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Jabez 

Thompson ( 1776), Major of Derby (Connecticut,) 

Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Major 
1st Kegiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel David 
Wooster, May 1, 1775, Lieutenant-Colonel 2d Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, 1776 ; killed in the retreat 
from New York, September 15, 1776. 

1891. Thompson, Frederick Diodati (Life Member), 454 

Great-great-grandson of Reverend Stephen Johnson, 

Chaplain 6th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel 

S. H. Parsons, May 20, 1775. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Matthew Griswold (1714- 

1799), Deputy - Governor of Connecticut. 1771-84; 

Chief-Justice of Connecticut, 1769-84. 

1885. Thompson, Von Beverhout, M. D., 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Walter Smith, Maryland 
Line; Member of Frederick County Committee of 
Safety and Correspondence. 

1890. Thompson, William A., 474 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant William Thompson (1742- 
1777), Private in 1st Company, 5th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel David Waterbury, May 8, 
1775 ; Lieutenant Connecticut Militia ; killed in action 
at Ridgefield, Connecticut (Danbury Raid), April, 
1777. 

1884. Thompson, William R, 48 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Alexander Thompson, 
( 1809), 2d Regiment Continental Corps of Artil- 
lery, New York, Colonel Lamb. 

1887. Thornall, Clarence Eugene, 99 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Garrett Voorhees, Sussex 
County Militia, New Jersey; also Private Continen- 
tal Army, New Jersey. 



255 

No. of 
Elected. Insigni*. 

1888. Thornall, Edward Voorheks, 87 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Garrett Voorhees, Sussex 
County Militia, New Jersey, also Private Continen- 
tal Army, New Jersey. 

1889. Thorne, Robert, 

Great-great-grandson of Major Richard Thorne, Queens 
County Militia, and Member First Provincial Con- 
gress, New York. 

1891. Tiemann, Paul E., M. D., 591 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Abraham Leggett, 
(1755-1842i. 5th Regiment New York Line, Colonel 
Lewis Dubois, October 2. 1777. 

1889. Tillinghast. Charles Whitney, 2d, 254 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas 
Tillinghast (1742-1821), Major Kent County Militia. 
Rhode Island, 1776 ; Recruiting Officer, Rhode Island 
Militia, August, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel 1st Regi- 
ment Kent County Militia, May, 1778, to May, 1781 ; 
Member of Rhode Island Assembly, 1772-9 ; Member 
of Rhode Island Council of War. 1779. 

1890. Tillinghast, Joseph J., 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Tilling- 
hast (1742-1821), Major Kent County Militia, Rhode 
Island, 1776; Recruiting Officer, Rhode Island Militia, 
August, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1st Regiment 
Kent County Militia, May, 1778, to May, 1781 ; Mem- 
ber of Rhode Island Assembly, 1772-9: Member of 
Rhode Island Council of War, 1779. 

1889. Tillinghast. William H.. 78 

Grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Tillinghast 
(1742-1821), Major Kent County Militia, Rhode 
Island, 1776 ; Recruiting Officer, Rhode Island Militia, 
August, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel 1st Regiment 
Kent County Militia, May, 1778, to May, 1781 ; Mem- 
ber of Rhode Island Assembly, 17729; Member of 
Rhode Island Council of War, 1779. 



256 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1886. Tomlinson, John Canfield, 36 

Great-great- grain' son of Colonel Andrew Adams 
( 1797), Major Connecticut Militia, 1777; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, 1779; Colonel 17th Eegiment Con- 
necticut Militia, 1780 ; Delegate Continental Congress, 
1777-80 (Speaker, 1779-80) ; Member Connecticut 
Council of Safety. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Brigade-Major John Can- 
field, Adjutant Sheldon's Dragoons, 1776; Brigade- 
Major in Brigadier-General Oliver Wolcott's Detach- 
ment, "at Saratoga," 1777; Member of Continental 
Congress. 



1886. Tomlinson, Theodore E., Jr., 37 

Great -great -grandson of Colonel Andrew Adams 
( 1797), Major Connecticut Militia, 1777; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, 1779; Colonel 17th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, 1780 ; Delegate Continental Congress, 
1777-SO ( Speaker, 1779-80) ; Member Connecticut 
Council of Safety. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Brigade-Major John Can- 
fiekl, Adjutant Sheldon's Dragoons, 1776: Brigade- 
Major in Brigadier-General Oliver Wolcott's Detach- 
ment, "at Saratoga," 1777; Member Continental 
Congress. 



1891. Tompkins, Hamilton Bullock, 

Grandson of Private Gideon Tompkins (1761-1837), 
Rhode Island Continental Infantry. 



1891. Tostevin, William L., 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Daniel Brainard, Col- 
onel Comfort Sage's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
1779. 



257 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Towle, George Francis (Captain and Brevet Lieuten- 

ant-Colonel, U. S. A.), 438 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant William Greenleaf 

( 1800), Fifer in Captain Moses McFarland's 

Company, Colonel Nixon's Massachusetts Militia, 
January, 1776 ; Private in Captain Fairchild's Com- 
pany in Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's Regiment 
Massachusetts Militia, February, 1777; promoted 
Corporal; then Sergeant in same, September 11, 
1777; Ensign in same, 1777; Lieutenant in same, 
February 13, 1778. 

1891. Towle, Harry F., 

Great-grandson of Sergeant Simeon Towle (1752-1823), 
Private in Captain Joseph Parsons' Company New 
Hamshire Minute Men, October 12, 1775 ; Private in 
Captain Henry Elkin's Company New Hampshire 
Militia, November 5, 1775 ; Private in Captain Jona- 
than Robinson's Company, Colonel William Whip- 
ple's Regiment New Hampshire Militia, raised to re- 
inforce the Continental Army at New York, 1776; 
Sergeant in Captain Joseph Parsons' Company New 
Hampshire Militia, Colonel David Gilman, December 
5, 1776; Sergeant same Company, Lieutenant-Col- 
onel Joseph Senter's Regiment New Hampshire Mili- 
tia, to reinforce the Continental Army in Rhode Isl- 
and, June 26, 1777; Private in Captain Parsons' 
Company, Colonel Moses Nichols' Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers, in Expedition to Rhode Isl- 
and, August 15, 1778; Private in Captain Nute's 
Company, Colonel Wentworth's Regiment New 
Hampshire Militia, raised for defence of Portsmouth, 
September, 27, 1779. 

1889. Townsend, Edward Nicoll, 

Grandson of Midshipman Solomon Townsend, Conti- 
nental frigate " Providence, " 28 guns, Commander 
Whipple, July 16, 1778. 

Also, Great-grandson of Samuel Townsend, Member 
Provincial Congress, New York, 1774-77. 



No. of 
Elected. Insignia 

1889. Townsend, Robert, 

Grandson of Midshipman Solomon Townsend, Conti- 
nental frigate " Providence," 28 guns, Commander 
Whipple, July 16, 1778. 

Also, Great-grandson of Samuel Townsend, Member 
Provincial Congress, New York, 1774-77. 



1892. Townsend, Rufus M., 

Great-grandson of Private Rufus Marsh (1758-1814), 
Captain Christopher Bainester's Company, Colonel 
David Well's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, on Ex- 
pedition to Fort Ticonderoga, May 8 to July 8, 1777 ; 
Private in Captain Ebenezer Webber's Company, 
Colonel Ezra May's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
on Expedition to Stillwater, September 20 to October 
14, 1777. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Eliashib Adams (1727- 
1801), Member of Connecticut General Convention, 
1775. 



1886. Tremain, Henry Edwin, 

Great-grandson of Private Nathaniel Tremain ( 

1800), Massachusetts Militia. 



1888. Trenchard, Edward, • 40 

Great-great-grandson of Captain George Trenchard 
(1720-1780), Captain 1st Battalion Salem County 
(New Jersey) Militia, Colonel Ebenezer Dick, 1776 ; 
Captain New Jersey Light Horse Militia, 1778; 
Chairman of Committee of Safety and Correspond- 
ence, Salem County, New Jersey, 1774-5. 
Also, Great-grandson of Captain Joshua Sands, (1758- 
1835), Commissary's Department, Continental Army. 
Also, Great-grandson of Ensign John Barclay (1749- 
1816), Ensign Philadelphia Associatoi*s, 1776; Mem- 
ber of Philadelphia Light Horse. 1 780. 



259 

Elected. 

1891. Trowbridge, Samuel Breck Parkman, 

Great -grandson of Lieutenant Luther Trowbridge 
(1756-1802), Lieutenant in Captain Parker's Company 
7th Regiment Massachusetts Continental Infantry, 
Colonel John Brooks, July 1, 1777, to 1782 ; Lieuten- 
ant in Captain Jonathan Maynard's Company same 
Regiment, January, 1782. 

1889. Tucker, Cummings Hatfield, Jr., 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Isaac Halsey, Eastern 
Battalion Morris County (New Jersey) Militia, 1775 ; 
served throughout the war. 

1889. Tucker, Edwin B., 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Isaac Halsey, Eastern 
Battalion Morris County (New Jersey) Militia. 1775 ; 
served throughout the war. 

1889. Tucker, Francis Cummings, 418 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Isaac Halsey, Eastern 
Battalion Morris County (New Jersey) Militia, 1775 ; 
served throughout the war. 

1889. Tucker, William Alonzo, 66 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Isaac Halsey, Eastern 
Battalion Morris County (New Jersey) Militia, 1775: 
served throughout the war. 

1891. Tufts, Walter Brownell, 

Great -great-grandson of Lieutenant Thomas Emerson, 
Essex County Militia, Massachusetts, "Lexington 
Alarm," 1775. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Samuel Brad- 
street, Essex County Militia, Massachusetts. "Lex- 
ington Alarm," 1775. 

1890. Turner, Gilbert Hubbard, 

Great-great-grandson of Ensign John Turner, 6th Bat- 
talion Philadelphia County Militia, Pennsylvania. 



260 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Turner, John Clock, 339 

Great-grandson of Private John Clock (1757-1838), 
Captain Bell's Company 9th Connecticut Militia, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Mead. December 24, 1776. 



1889. Turner, Thomas Morgan, 93 

Great-great-grandson of Ensign John Turner, 6th Bat- 
talion Philadelphia County Militia, Pennsylvania. 

1890. Turner, Thornton Floyd, 

Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734-1821), 
Signer of Declaration of Independence, and Colonel 
1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New York, 
1775. 

1891. Turrill, Henry Stuart, Captain and Assistant-Sur- 

geon, U. S. A., 611 

Grandson of Private John Turrill (1756-1829), Captain 
Ebenezer Couch's Company, Colonel Andrew- 
Ward's Regiment Connecticut Militia, February, 
1776 ; served around New York, 1776 ; later in Conti- 
nental Service in same Regiment. 

1889. Tuttle, Ezra B., 211 

Great-grandson of Captain James Green, 2d Regiment 
Connecticut Militia Light Horse (Major Elijah Hyde), 
at "Saratoga." 

1889. | ^Tyler, Henry Whitney, 

Great-grandson of Captain James Green, 2d Regiment 
Connecticut Militia Light Horse (Major Elijah Hyde), 
at "Saratoga." 

1885. Tyler, Mason W., 143 

Great-grandson of Timothy Edwards, Committee of 
Safety for Berkshire County Massachusetts ; also 
Commissary of Supplies for Massachusetts. 
Also, Great-grandson of Dr. William Whitney, mem- 
ber of Massachusetts Provincial Congress, 1775. 



261 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Underbill, Edgar, 422 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant John Odell (1756-1835), 
Private in Captain John Oakley's Company, West- 
chester County Militia, August 24, 1775 ; Private in 
Captain Stephen Oakley's Company, Westchester 
County Militia, New York, May. 1775, Colonel Samuel 
Drake ; Private in Captain Seybert Acker's Company, 
Colonel Morris Graham's Regiment New York Levies, 
May, 1778; Private in Captain Daniel Williams' 
Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Pawling's Regi- 
ment of New York Levies, raised for defence of the 
frontier, May 11, 1780; also General Guide to the 
army in Westchester County. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant David Hunt (1757- 
1819), Private in Captain Ricker's Company, 2d 
Regiment New York Line, May 5, 1778, to February 
17, 1779; Quartermaster-Lieutenant 5th Regiment 
New York Line, Colonel Lewis Dubois, July 1, 1780; 
Quartermaster 3d Regiment New York Levies, Col- 
onel Morris Graham, 1780. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Jonathan Owens, 
Ensign in Captain Isaiah Beal's Company, 2d 
Regiment Ulster County Militia, Colonel James 
Clinton, October 25, 1775; later Lieutenant in same. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Gilbert Taylor 
(1744-1805), 1st Lieutenant in Captain Nicholas Ber- 
rian's Company, Westchester County Militia, New 
York, October 31, 1775. 



1888. Vail, Charles Montgomery, 110 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Vail, 2d Lieu- 
tenant in Colonel Drake's and Van Cortlandt's Regi- 
ment (3d or Manor of Van Cortlandt) ; in active 
service from August 15, 1778, to November 20, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Gilbert T. Vail. 
Orange County Militia, killed at Minisink Massacre, 
July 22, 1779. 



262 

No, of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1888. Vail, James William, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Vail, 2d Lieu- 
tenant in Colonel Drake's and Van Cortlandt's Regi- 
ment (3d or Manor of Van Cortlandt) ; in active 
service from August 15, 1778, to November 20, 1781. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Gilbert T. Vail, 
Orange County Militia, killed at Minisink Massacre, 
Julv 22, 1779. 



1886. Valentine, Abraham B., 35 

Great-grandson of Edward Briggs, Committee of Safety, 
Westchester County, New York, 1776-77. 

1890. Valentine, Benjamin Eyre, 64 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Eyre 
(1747-1789), 2d Battalion Militia, Philadelphia Associ- 
ators, served throughout the war. 



1891. Van Antwerp, William, 

Great-grandson of Private Nicholas Van Antwerp (1760- 

1825), 1st Battalion New York City Militia, Colonel 

John Lasher, July 30, 1776. 
Also, Great-grandson of Private Leonard Fisher ( 

1835), 1st Battalion New York City Militia, Colonel 

John Lasher, 1776. 

1885. Vanderpoel, John A., 344 

Great-grandson of Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835), Captain, 1776, 
Major Sheldon's Light Dragoons; 1777, conducted 
" secret service " for the Commander-in-Chief; cap- 
tured Fort George, Long Island, November 21, 1780, 
and received special notice of Congress; Lieutenant- 
Colonel by brevet, 1783. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of William Floyd (1734- 
1821), Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and 
Colonel 1st Regiment Suffolk County Militia, New 
York, 1775. 



263 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Vax Dyk, James, 676 

Great-grandson of Captain-Lieutenant John Van Dyk 
(1754-1810), Captain 1st Battalion New York City 
Militia, Colonel John Lasher, September, 1776; 1st 
Lieutenant 2d Regiment Continental Corps of Artil- 
lery, Colonel Lamb, November, 1776; promoted Cap- 
tain-Lieutenant, and Major by brevet at close of war. 

1889. Van Lennep, Frederic, 

Great-great-great-grandson of Governor Jonathan 
Trumbull, LL. D. (1710-1785), Connecticut. 

1889. Van Rensselaer, Cortlandt Schuyler, 

Great grandson of Major James Van Rensselaer, (1747- 
1827), Aide-de-Camp (with rank of Captain) to Major- 
General Richard Montgomery, 1775 ; served through 
the Canada Campaign at Fort Chambly, St. Johns, 
Montreal and Quebec; Aide-de-Camp (with rank of 
Major) to Major-General Philip Schuyler, 1776: 
served with the Northern Army. 

1889. Van Rensselaer, Reverend Maunsell, D. D., LL.D., 
Great-grandson of Colonel Killian Van Rensselaer 
(1717-1781), Quartermaster 8th Regiment Albany 
County Militia (1st Claverack Battalion), New York, 
Colonel Robert Van Rensselaer, July 25, 1778; 
Colonel 4th Regiment Albany County Militia, April 
1, 1778 ; Member of Albany Committee of Correspond- 
ence, 1775. 

1888. Van Vechten. Abraham Van Wyck (Life Member), 29 
Grandson of Captain Samuel Van Vechten, 1st Regi- 
ment Albany County Militia, New York, Colonel 
Van Schaick. 
Also, Great-grandson of Theodorus Van Wyck, M. D., 
Member of the New York Provincial Congress, and 
Commissioner of Sequestration for Dutchess County. 
Also, Great-grandson of Captain Samuel Haight, of 
Manor of Cortlandt Regiment, New York, Colonel 
Pierre Van Cortlandt. 



264 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1886. Van Winkle, Edgar Beach, 

Great-great-grandson of Fife-Major Abram Goodwin, 
5th New York Line, Colonel Lewis Dubois. 



Varnum, James M., 70 

Great-grandson of Major-General Joseph Bradley Var- 
num, Captain 7th Regiment Massachusetts Militia 
Infantry, 1776 ; Captain 11th Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia Infantry, 1781; later Major-General of Massa- 
chusetts Militia. 

Also, Great-grand nephew and Representative of Major- 
General James M. Varnum, Brigadier-General Con- 
tinental Army, 1777-9; Major-General commanding 
Rhode Island State Militia in United States service, 
1780; and Member of Continental Congress. 

Also, Great-grandson of Major Augustus Pease, (1757- 
1791), Sergeant in Captain Oliver Hanchett's Com- 
pany 2d Regiment Connecticut Continental Infantry, 
Colonel Israel Putnam, 1775, at siege of Boston; 
Major and Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Spencer, 
April 21, 1777. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Sergeant Joseph Pease, 
Private in Captain Elihu Kent's Company Suffield 
(Connecticut) Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 
1775; Private in Captain Oliver Hanchett's Company 
2d Regiment Connecticut Continental Infantry, Col- 
onel Israel Putnum, May 28, 1775, at siege of Bos- 
ton; Private in 2d Regiment Connecticut Line, 
Colonel Charles Webb, July 1, 1780; Private in Cap- 
tain Samuel Granger's Company, 2d Battalion 
Connecticut State Troops, Major Elijah Humphrey, 
Waterbury's Brigade, June 30, 1781 ; Quartermaster 
July 12, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-great-grandson of Private Josiah 
King, in Captain Elihu Kent's Company Suffield 
(Connecticut) Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 
1775. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Jacob Butler, 
Private in Captain Amos Gage's Company, Colon el 
Daniel Moore's Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer 
Infantry, September 29, 1777, at "Saratoga." 



265 



No. of 
Insignia. 



Also, Great-great-grandson of Private Andrew Gra- 
ham (1728-1785), Private in Captain John Hinman's 
Company 13th Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel 
Benjamin Hinman, August 18, 1776, served around 
New York; later Surgeon in same Regiment. 

1890. Vernon, William Bryan, 

Great-great-grandson of William Vernon (1719-1806), 
President of the Continental Navy Board. Rhode Island. 

1885. Ver Planck, William Gordon, 153 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel James Gor- 
don, 12th Regiment Albany Countj r Militia, New 
York, Colonel Van Schoonhoven ; captured, taken to 
Canada, October 17. 1780 ; exchanged November 19, 1782. 

1891. Viele, Sheldon Thompson, 

Great - great - grandson of Lieutenant- Colonel Jabez 

Thompson ( 1776), Major of Derby (Connecticut) 

Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Major 
1st Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel David 
Wooster, May 1, 1775; Lieutenant-Colonel 2d Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, 1776 ; killed in the retreat 
from New York, September 15, 1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel John Knicker- 
backer (1723-1812), 14th Regiment Albany County 
Militia, New York. 



1887. Wainwright, John Tillotson, 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Thomas Tillotson, Mary- 
land Line, and 1st Lieutenant Queen Anne County 
Militia, Captain Kent, February 3, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert R. 
Livingston, Jr., 10th Regiment Albany County 
Militia, New York. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Robert R. Livingston, 
Member of Continental Congress, 1776; Member 
New York Provincial Congress, 1776-8; Secretary 
for Foreign Affairs, 1781-3 ; Chancellor New York, 1783. 



26(5 

Elected. 

1889. Wainwright, William Pratt, Jr., 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Thomas Tillotson, Maryland 
Line, and 1st Lieutenant Queen Anne County 
Militia, Captain Kent, February 3, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert R. 
Livingston, Jr., 10th Regiment Albany County 
Militia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Robert R. Livingston, 
Member of Continental Congress, 1776: Member 
New York Provincial Congress, 1776-8; Secretary 
for Foreign Affairs, 1781-3 ; Chancellor New York. 
1783. 



1888. Wakeman, Abram, 

Great-grandson of Private Ebenezer Wakeman, Captain 
Dimon's Company Minute Men, that marched from 
Fairfield, Connecticut, on Lexington Alarm, 1775. 



1889. Walbridge, Robert Ryckman, 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge, 
(1738-1819), Lieutenant in Captain Gideon Brown- 
sou's Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment Ver- 
mont Militia, March 3, 1776; Acting Adjutant of the 
Regiment in the Canadian Expedition ; Colonel Ver- 
mont Militia, 1780; Member of Assembly, 1778-80. 



1890. Walden, Daniel Treabwell, 

Grandson of Assistant Purser Jacob Walden, of New 
Hampshire, Continental Sloop-of-War "Ranger," 
Captain John Paul Jones. 



1892. Walker, William Augustus, 799 

Great-grandson of Quartermaster Thomas Williams 
(1754-1811), 3d Regiment New York Line, Colonel 
Peter Gansevoort, November 21, 1776. 



267 

No. of 
Insignia. 

Also, Grandson of Private Joseph Walker (1760-1852), 
served as guard under Sergeant Breck in Hopkinton 
(Massachusetts) Militia, April, 1776; Private in Cap- 
tain Samuel Burbank's Company Massachusetts Mili- 
itia, for service in Rhode Island, January, 1778; 
Private in Captain Perry's Company, Colonel Cy- 
prian Howe's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, Rhode 
Island service, August, 1778 ; Private in Captain Mc- 
Farland's Company, Colonel Cyprian Howe's Regi- 
ment, for Rhode Island service, September, 1780. 



1890. Wallace, William Addison, 475 

Great-grandson of Private Abijah Thompson, (1739- 
1811), Captain Samuel Belknap's Company, Wo- 
burn Militia, Massachusetts, on duty at Cambridge, 
April 19, 1775. 



1891. Ward, Reginald Henshawe, 

Great-great-grandson of Major-General Artemas Ward 
(1727-1800), Major-General Continental Army, Octo- 
ber 27, 1774; Commander-in-Chief of Massachusetts 
forces, May 19, 1775 ; Commander-in-Chief of Conti- 
nental forces, June 15, 1775; Senior Major-General 
Continental Army, June 17, 1775 ; Member of Massa- 
chusetts Provincial Congress, 1775 ; Member of Mas- 
sachusetts Executive Council, 1777 ; Member of Con- 
tinental Congress, 1779. 



1887. Ward, Sylvester L. H. (Life Member), 249 

Great-grandson of Stephen Ward (1730-1797), Member 
of 1st, 2d and 3d Provincial Congresses from West- 
chester County, New York; Member of New York 
Assembly, 1779; Member of New York Senate, 

1779-87. 

1888. Warley, Felix, 

Grandson of Captain Felix Waidey, 1st Regiment Line, 
South Carolina. 



268 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Warner, James Meech, 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Joseph Little ( 

1791), Captain Ezekiel Giles" Company of Volunteers 
from Plaistovv, New Hampshire, joined the Northern 
Army at Saratoga, October, 1777. 

1883. Warren, Asa Coolidge, 7 

Grandson of Private Timothy Warren, Captain John 
Holley's Company Massachusetts Militia; served 
under General Gates, 1777. 

1890. Warren, Charles Elliott, 34Q 

Great-grandson of Private William Warren (1751- 
1831), Captain . Abram Peirce's Company, Colonel 
Thomas Gardner's Regiment, Massachusetts. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Azor Phelps, Captain 
Benjamin Allton's Company, Colonel John Rand's 
Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, July 22. 1780. 

1891. Warren, Edward Stevens, 598 

Great -great -grandson of Lieutenant- Colonel Jabez 

Thompson ( 1776), Major of Derby (Connecticut) 

Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; Major 
1st Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel David 
Wooster, May 1, 1775 ; Lieutenant-Colonel 2d Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, 1776 ; killed in the retreat 
from New York, September 15, 1776. 

1889. Warren, Henry T., 

Great - great - grandson of Colonel Andrew Adams 
( 1797), Major Connecticut Militia, 1777; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, 1779; Colonel 17th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, 1780 ; Delegate Continental Congress. 
1777-80 (Speaker, 1779-80) ; Member Connecticut 
Council of Safety. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Surgeon John Warren 
(1753-1815), Surgeon in Essex County (Massachusetts) 
Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775; subse- 
quently appointed Hospital Surgeon in Boston, and 
continued so during the war. 



269 



No. of 
Insignia. 



Also, Great-great-grandson of Brigade- Major John Can- 
field, Adjutant Sheldon's Dragoons, 1776; Brigade- 
Major in Brigadier-General Oliver Wolcott's Detach- 
ment, "at Saratoga," 1777; Member Continental 
Congress. 

1891. Warren, William Young, 548 

Great - great - grandson of Lieutenant- Colonel Jabez 

Thompson ( 1776), Major of Derby (Connecticut) 

Militia "Lexington Alarm,'' April 19, 1775; Major 
1st Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel David 
Wooster, May 1, 1775 ; Lieutenant-Colonel 2d Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, 1776 ; killed in the retreat 
from New York, September 15, 1776. 

1891. Wayne, Reverend Henry N., 

Great-great-grandson of Brigade-Major Jonathan Law- 
rence, Brigade-Major Queens County Militia, 1775; 
Lieutenant in Colonel William Malcolm's Regimeut 
"additional Continental," 1777; Captain in Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel H. K. Van Rensselaer's Regiment New 
York Levies, 1779; Captain in Colonel John Harp- 
er's Regiment New York Levies, in service of United 
States, 1780 ; Member New York Provincial Congress,. 
1776. 

1889. Webb, Francis Parsons, 

Great-grandson of Colonel Samuel Blachley Webb, 
3d Connecticut Line, and Aide-de-Camp to General 
Washington. 

1889. Webb, Leland Justin, 

Great-grandson of Private Moses Webb (1756-1850), 
Connecticut Militia. 

1890. Weed, Henry F., 

Grandson of Private John Clock (1757-1838), Captain 
Bell's Company, 9th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
Lieutenant-Colonel John Mead, December 24, 1776. 



270 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Weeks, Bartow S., 136 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Ebenezer White, 3d West- 
chester County Militia, New York, Colonel Van 
Cortlandt, 1778-81. 



1891. Wellington, Arthur Mellon, 596 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant Benjamin Wellington 
(1743-1812), Private in Captain John Bridges' Com- 
pany, Colonel Eliezer Brooks' Regiment Massachu- 
setts Militia, May 6, 1775 ; Sergeant in Captain Sam- 
uel Farrar's Company same Regiment, September 29, 
1777; served with General Gates in Northern Army; 
3d Lieutenant 3d Company, 3d Regiment Middlesex 
County (Massachusetts) Militia, Colonel Faulkner, 
June 7, 1780. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Gor- 
don Hutchins (1733-1815), Captain in Colonel John 
Stark's Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Militia, 
April 23, 1775; Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel Na- 
hum Baldwin's Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer 
Militia, September 17, 1776 ; served around New York. 

1891. Wemple, Christopher Yates, 509 

Great-grandson of Quartermaster Jacob Van Alstyne, 
6th Regiment Albany County Militia, New York, 
1775, Colonel Stephen J. Schuyler; later Adjutant 
same regiment. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain Daniel Braiuard, Col- 
onel Comfort Sage's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
1779. 

1891. Wemple, Edward Lansing, 510 

Great-great-grandson of Quartermaster Jacob Van Al- 
styne, 6th Regiment Albany County Militia, New 
York, 1775, Colonel Stephen J. Schuyler; later Adju- 
tant same regiment. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Daniel Brainard, 
Colonel Comfort Sage's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
1779. 



271 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Wemple, Harry Yates, 511 

Great-great-grandson of Quartermaster Jacob Van Al- 
styne, 6th Regiment Albany County Militia, New- 
York, 1775, Colonel Stephen J. Schuyler; later Adju- 
tant same regiment. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Daniel Brainard, 
Colonel Comfort Sage's Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
1779. 

1891. Wemple, Henry Yates, 

Great-grandson of Quartermaster Jacob Van Alstyne, 
6th Regiment Albany County Militia. New York, 
1775, Colonel Stephen J. Schuyler; later Adjutant 
same regiment. 

1891. Wemple, John Russ, 

Great-grandson of Quartermaster Jacob Van Alstyne, 
6th Regiment Albany County Militia, New York, 
1775, Colonel Stephen J. Schuyler; later Adjutant 
same regiment. 

1891. Wessels, Henry Walton, 575 
Great-great-grandson of Private Elijah Holcombe (1731 
), 3d Company, Captain Roger Enos, 2d Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Joseph Spencer, 
1775; Private Captain James Judson's Company, 
Major John Skinners Regiment Connecticut Light 
Horse Militia, 1776; Private "Sheldon's" Dragoons, 
1781-3. 

1886. Weston, Reverend Daniel Cony, D. D., 141 

Grandson of Adjutant Daniel Cony, Massachusetts 
Militia. 

1891. Westbrook, Frederick E., 629 

Grandson of Ensign Frederick Westbrook (1749-1823), 
3d Rochester Company Ulster County Militia, Colo- 
nel Levi Pawling, May 3, 1776. 
Also, Grandson of Captain Isaac Van Wyck, 2d Regi- 
ment, Rondout Precinct, Dutchess County Minute 
Men, Colonel Dirck Brinckerhoff, October 17, 1775; 
previously (February 26, 1775), Ensign in same. 



No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Wetmore, Edward Willard, 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Elias Willard (1756-1827), 
Private in Massachusetts Militia; served at Boston, 
April, 1775; Surgeon in Massachusetts Hospitals, 
1777; Surgeon in Colonel Frost's Marine Regiment, 
stationed on the Hudson, 1777 : Surgeon in Military- 
Hospitals at Boston, 1780-5. 



1891. Wheeler. Reverend Horace Leslie, 

Great -great -grandson of Lieutenant - Colonel Abijah 
Brown (1736-1818), Captain of Watertown (Massa- 
chusetts) Militia, 1775 ; Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel 
Ruggles Wood bridge's Regiment, June, 1776, at 
'"Bunker's Hill"; Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel 
Ephraim Wheelock's Regiment Suffolk County 
(Massachusetts) Militia, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel in 
Thomas Poor's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, raised 
for defence of the North River, June 26, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Corporal Eli Jones (1756-1811), 
Private in Captain Abraham Peirce's Company, Col- 
onel Thomas Gardiner's Regiment Massachusetts 
Minute Men, at Concord and Lexington, April, 1775 ; 
Private in Captain Abijah Lamb's Company, Colonel 
Jonathan Holman's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
1776; Private in Captain Isaac Martin's Company, 
Colonel Joseph Whitney's Regiment Massachusetts 
Militia, served in Rhode Island, May, 1777; Private 
in Captain Edward Fuller's Company, Colonel Wil- 
liam Mcintosh's Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
March 19, 1778 ; Private in Captain Peirce's Com- 
pany, Colonel Stearns' Regiment, detached to serve 
for nine months in Continental Army, 1779 ; Corporal 
among the Six Months' Men raised in Waltham for 
Continental service, July 11, 1780. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Deputy Brigade Com- 
missary Stephen Nye (1720-1810), 1st Lieutenant in 
Elizabeth Island Militia, January 1, 1776; Deputy 
Brigade Commissary same, 1776; Member of Massa- 
chusetts Provincial Congress, 1775. 



273 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1890. Whipple, Charles Henry, Major, U. S. A., 482 

Great-great-grandson of Stephen Ward (1730-1797), 
Member of 1st, 2d and 3d Provincial Congresses, from 
Westchester County, New York: Member of New 
York Assembly, 1779 ; Member of New York Senate, 

1770-87. 



1891. White, Reverend Erskine Norman, 

Great-grandson of Captain Jonathan Hale (1716-1776), 
Captain 6th Company, Colonel Erastus Wolcott's 
Regiment Connecticut State Troops, 1776; died in 
service near Boston, March 7, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Moses Stanley, Private 
in Major Thomas Brown's Company Coventry (Con- 
necticut) Militia, " Lexington Alarm," April 19, 1775. 



1891. White, William Darling, 572 

Grandson of Private Antipass White (1739-1820), Colo- 
nel Canfield's Regiment Connecticut Militia, Septem- 
tember, 1781: at West Point, 1781. 



1890. Whitehead, Ira Condict, M. D., 455 

Grandson of 2d Lieutenant and Brevet-Captain William 
I. Pennington of New Jersey (1757-1826), Sergeant 
2d Regiment Continental Corps of Artillery, Colonel 
Lamb, March 7, 1777; promoted 2d Lieutenant, Sep- 
tember 12, 1778; Captain by brevet. 



1891. Whittemore, William Lawrence, 

Great-great-grandson of Private Samuel Whittemore 
(1696-1793), Private in Charlestown (Massachusetts) 
Company of Minute Men; severely wounded in the 
action at Lexington, April 19, 1775. 



274 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Wilcox, Reynold Webb, M. D., 139 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Timothy Field, 
Sergeant in Ensign Jehiel Meigs' Company Guilford 
(Connecticut) Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April, 
1775; Private in 2d Company, Captain Andrew- 
Ward, Colonel David Wooster's Regiment Connecti- 
cut Militia, 1775; Lieutenant in 7th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel Worthington, 1780; Lieu- 
tenant in Captain Peter Vaill's Company, Connecti- 
cut Coast Guards, 1781. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Reynold Webb, Cap- 
tain Kirtland's Company 6th Connecticut Line, Col- 
onel William Douglass, June 2, 1777. 

Also, Great-grandson of Sergeant Daniel Meigs (1747- 
1822), Sergeant in Ensign Jehiel Meigs' Company 
Guilford Militia, "Lexington Alarm," April, 1775; 
Sei*geant in Captain Peter Vaill's Company, Connecti- 
cut Coast Guards, 1781. 

1890. Wildman, Henry Green, 

Great-grandson of Captain James Green, 2d Regiment 
Connecticut Militia Light Horse (Major Elijah Hyde), 
at " Saratoga." 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Philo Canfield, Captain 
Nathan Chapman's Company, Colonel John Mead's 
Regiment Connecticut Militia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Sam- 
uel Canfield, 1st Battalion Connecticut State Troops, 
Colonel Samuel Whiting. 

1891. Wiley, William Melin. 713 

Great-great-grandson of Major John James (1732-1791),, 
Major in General Marion's Brigade South Carolina 
Militia. 

1890. Willard, David Seymour, 

Great-grandson of Surgeon Elias Willard (1756-1827), 
Private in Massachusetts Militia; served at Boston, 
April, 1775; Surgeon in Massachusetts Hospitals, 
1777; Surgeon in Colonel Frost's Marine Regiment, 
stationed on the Hudson, 1777; Surgeon in Military 
Hospitals at Boston, 1780-5. 



275 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Williams, Charles Howard, 740 

Great-grandson of Ensign Benjamin Williams (1744- 
1835), Captain Parker's Company, Colonel Moses 
Nichols' Regiment, Stark's Brigade, New Hampshire 
Volunteer Infantry, July 19, 1777, at "Stillwater." 

1890. Williams, Robert Day, 

Great-grandson of Corporal Isaac Foot, of Connecticut 
(1746-1848), Corporal in 2d Regiment Continental 
Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, May 1, 1777. 

1890. Williams, William Tylee, 479 

Great-grandson of Private William Lippincott I 
1801), Captain Walton's Troop Light Dragoons, 
Monmouth County, New Jersey. 

1891. Williamson, Nicholas, M. D., 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel James Abeel (1738 
1825), of New Jersey, Deputy Quartermaster General 
Continental Army. 

1885. Wilson, Henry Applegate. 464 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant and Brevet Captain Wes- 
sel Ten Broeck Stout, 2d Lieutenant 4th Battalion 2d 
Establishment, New Jersey Line, 1777; transferred to 
3d Battalion ; Ensign 3d Regiment New Jersey Line: 
Lieutenant ditto, 1782; Lieutenant 1st Regiment 
New Jersey Line; discharged at close of war; Cap- 
tain by brevet. 

1891. Wilson, Robert Preston, 

Grandson of Ensign Robert Wilson (1763-1811), 2d 
Company, Captain John Graham, 1st Regiment New 
York Line, Colonel Van Schaick, June 29, 1781. 

1889, Winne, Charles Knickerbacker, Major, Surgeon 

U. S. A.. 131 

Great-great-grandson of Ensign Douw .I. Fonda. 3d 
Regiment New York Line, Colonel Gansevoort, May 
29. 1779; mustered to the end of the war. 



276 



No. of 
Insignia. 



Also, Great-grandson of Adjutant Jacob Winne, Ad- 
jutant of 14th Regiment Albany County (New York) 
Militia, Colonel Yates, October, 1779 ; Quartermaster 
of Lieutenant -Colonel Marinus Willet's Regiment 
Militia, August 7, 1781. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel John Knicker- 
backer (1723-1802), 14th Albany County Militia, 
New York. 



1890. Wisner, Charles, 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Wis- 
ner, Major Florida and Warwick Regiment Orange 
County Militia, 1776 ; Lieutenant-Colonel same Regi- 
ment (Colonel John Hathorn), February 19, 1778; 
Member New York Provincial Congress, 1775 ; Mem- 
ber of Continental Congress, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Ensign Gabriel Wisner, Orange 
County Militia (Colonel John Hathorn) ; killed in 
action at Minisink, on the Delaware, July 22, 1779. 

1891. Wisner, Lewis Smith, 625 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Wisner, 
Major Florida and Warwick Regiment Orange 
County Militia, 1776 ; Lieutenant-Colonel same Regi- 
ment (Colonel John Hathorn), February 19, 1778; 
Member New York Provincial Congress, 1775; Mem- 
ber of Continental Congress, 1776. 

1891. Wisner, Percy, 

Great-grandson of Ensign Gabriel Wisner, Orange 
County Militia (Colonel John Hathorn) ; killed in 
action at Minisink, on the Delaware, July 22, 1779. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Hen- 
ry Wisner, Major Florida and Warwick Regiment 
Orange County Militia, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel 
same Regiment (Colonel John Hathorn), February 
19, 1778; Member New York Provincial Congress, 
1775 ; Member of Continental Congress, 1776. 



277 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Wisner, William Henry, 

Grandson of Ensign Gabriel Wisner, Orange County 
Militia (Colonel John Hathorn) ; killed in action at 
Minisink, on the Delaware, July 22, 1779. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry 
Wisner, Major Florida and Warwick Regiment 
Orange County Militia, 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel 
same Regiment (Colonel John Hathorn), February 
19, 1778; Member New York Provincial Congress, 
1775 ; Member of Continental Congress, 1776. 

1891. WlTHERBEE, FRANK SPENCER, 

Great-great-grandson of First Lieutenant Thomas With- 
erby (1747-1828), Captain Thomas Knowlton's Shrews- 
bury Company, 6th Regiment Massachusetts Militia, 
Colonel Job dishing, 1777. 

1890. Wodell, Silas, 417 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Cornelius Van Wyck, 
5th Regiment Dutchess County (New Yoi'k) Militia, 
Colonel Abraham Brinckerhoff, killed at White 
Plains, October 31, 1776. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Colonel James Vande- 

burgh (1729 ), 5th Regiment Dutchess County 

Militia (Beekman's Precinct), March 10, 1778. 

Also, Great-grandson of Private Aaron Hall (1760- 
1839), Captain Stephen Hall's Company 7th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Continental Infantry, Colonel 
Heman Swift, May 15, 1780. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain Noah Wheeler 
(1744-1823), Ensign in Captain Robert Freeman's 
Company 6th Regiment (Charlotte Precinct) Dutchess 
County (New York) Militia, Colonel David Souther- 
land, October 17, 1775; promoted 1st Lieutenant 
March 20, 1778; promoted Captain June 25, 1778. 

1887. Wood, Samuel Seymour, 635 

Grandson of Private Samuel Wood (1740 ), Pri- 
vate 8th Company 1st Regiment New York Line. 
Colonel Van Schaick, 1776 : Private 2d Company 4th 
Regiment New York Line, Colonel H. B. Livingston. 
1777. 



278 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Woodhull, Jesse Calvin, 715 

Great-grandson of Colonel Jesse Woodhull (1735-1799), 
Orange County (New York) Militia (Woodhull'si. 
and Member New York Provincial Congress, 1775. . 

1891. Woodruff, Carle Augustus, Captain and Brevet Lieu 

tenant-Colonel, U. S. A., 631 

Great-grandson of Captain Israel Carle ( 1822), 

Hunterdon Troop of Light Horse New Jersey Militia, 
October 6, 1777. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel 
Thomas Lowry, 3d Regiment Hunterdon County 
(New Jersey) Militia, June 19, 1777; later Colonel 
same Regiment. 

1889. Woodruff, Charles Hornblower, 343 

Great-grandson of Private James Woodruff (1749- 
1813), Captain Bezaleel Beebe's Company, Colonel 
Andrew Ward, Jr/s, Regiment Connecticut Militia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Surgeon-General William 
Burnet (1730-1791), Surgeon 1st Battalion 1st Es- 
tablishment, New Jersey Line, December 8, 1775: 
Surgeon 1st Battalion 2d Establishment, November 
28, 1776; Surgeon 1st Regiment; resigned, and ap- 
pointed Surgeon-General for Eastern District Con- 
tinental Army. 1781-3. 

Also, Great-grandson of Josiah Hornblower, Speaker 
of Lower House (Assembly) Provincial Congress, 
New Jersey, 1780; Member of Upper House (Coun- 
cil). 1781-4. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain Joseph Ailing, Essex 
County Militia, New Jersey, 1776. 

1890. • Woodruff, Henry D wight (died November 29, 1891), 40S 

( rreat-grandson of Captain Ambrose Sloper (1735-1822), 
1st Lieutenant 1st Company, Captain Gad Stanley, 
2d Battalion, Colonel Fisher Gay, Wadsworth's Bri- 
gade Connecticut Militia, June. 1776; Captain of 
Parmington Company of Volunteers, .January 15, 
1777: Captain in 15th Regiment Connecticut Militia, 
1778; Captain of Connecticut Militia, "New Haven 
Alarm," 1779; Captain in Provisional Regiment 
Connecticut Militia, 1781. 



279 

No. of 

Insignia. 

Also, Grandson of Private Samuel Woodruff (1744- 
1840), Private in 4th Company, Captain David 
Welch, 1st Regiment Connecticut Militia, Colonel 
David Wooster, 1775; Private in Captain Judson's 
Company, Major John Skinner's Regiment Connecti- 
cut Light Horse Militia, January 7, 1776; Private 
in Captain Jesse Curtis 1 Company, Colonel Hooker's 
Regiment in Continental Service at Peekskill, April 
5, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant Elisha Root (1737- 
1776), 1st Company, Captain Noadiah Hooker, 
Colonel Erastus Wolcott's Regiment Connecticut 
Militia, stationed at Eastchester, New York. Jan- 
uary, 1776 ; died there in service, September, 1776. 

Also, Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel John 
Strong (1733-1816), Sergeant 1st Company 4th Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Hinman, May, 
1775; Ensign 8th Regiment Connecticut Line, 
Colonel Chandler. January 1, 1777; promoted Lieu- 
tenant, April 11, 1778; Major 17th Regiment Con- 
necticut Militia, Colonel Oliver Wolcott, January, 
1780; Lieutenant-Colonel same, May, 1783. 



1890. Woodruff, Morris, 

Great-grandson of Private James Woodruff (1749- 
1813), Captain Bezaleel Beebe's Company, Colonel 
Andrew Ward, Jr/s Regiment Connecticut Militia. 

Also, Great-great-grandson of Surgeon General Wil- 
liam Burnet (1730-1791), Surgeon 1st Battalion 1st 
Establishment, New Jersey Line, December 8, 1775; 
Surgeon 1st Battalion 2d Establishment, November 
28, 1776; Surgeon 1st Regiment; resigned, and ap- 
pointed Surgeon-General for Eastern District Con- 
tinental Army, 1781-3. 

Also, Great-grandson of Josiah Hornblower, Speaker 
of Lower House (Assembly) Provincial Congress, 
New Jersey, 1780; member of Upper House (Council), 
1781-1784. 

Also, Great-grandson of Captain Joseph Ailing. Essex 
County Militia, New Jersey, 1776. 



280 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1891. Woodruff, Thomas Mayhew, Captain U. S. A., 716 

Great-grandson of Captain Israel Carle ( 1822), 

Hunterdon Troop of Light Horse New Jersey Militia, 

October 6, 1777. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel 

Thomas Lowry, 3d Regiment Hunterdon County 

(New Jersey) Militia, June 19, 1777; later Colonel 

same Regiment. 

1885. Wright, W. F., M. D., 

Great-grandson of Private John Putnam, Private in 
Captain William Belcher's Company Connecticut 
Militia, marched to relief of Boston on "Lexington 
Alarm," 1775; Private 1st Regiment Connecticut 
Line, Colonel Jedediah Huntington, 1779. 

1887. Wyeth, George Edward, 

Great-great-grandson of Private Daniel Hawthorne, 
Massachusetts Militia. 

1887. Wyeth, Leonard J., Jr., 

Great-great-grandson of Private Daniel Hawthorne, 
Massachusetts Militia. 

1889. Wylie, Edmund Wade, 

Great-grandson of Private Samuel Hicks (1758-1834), 
Private from New London in Colonel S. H. Parson's 
Company, "Lexington Alarm," 1775; Private in 
Captain Calkins 1 Company, Colonel Latimer's Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, 1777; Private 2d Regiment 
Continental Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, 1780 ; 
Private in Captain Jared's Company of Connecticut 
Militia, 1781. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain-Lieutenant John 
Miles, Corporal in Captain Prentice's Company 5th 
Battalion Connecticut Militia, Colonel William Doug- 
lass, 1776; 1st Lieutenant 2d Regiment Continental 
Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, January 6, 1777; 
promoted Captain-Lieutenant in same, October 22, 
1779 ; served to close of war. 



281 

No. of 
Elected. Insignia. 

1889. Wylie, George Sandford, 357 

Great-grandson of Private Samuel Hicks (1758-1834), 
Private from New London in Colonel S. H. Parson's 
Company, "Lexington Alarm," 1775; Private in 
Captain Calkins' Company, Colonel Latimer's Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, 1777 ; Private 2d Regiment 
Continental Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, 1780 ; 
Private in Captain Jared's Company of Connecticut 
Militia, 1781. 
Also, Great-great-grandson of Captain-Lieutenant John 
Miles, Corporal in Captain Prentice's Company 5th 
Battalion Connecticut Militia, Colonel William Doug- 
lass, 1776; 1st Lieutenant 2d Regiment Continental 
Corps of Artillery, Colonel Lamb, January 6, 1777; 
promoted Captain-Lieutenant in same, October 22, 
1779 ; served to close of war. 



1889. Yeaton, Albert Sullivan, 46 

Great-grandson of Captain Ebenezer Sullivan (1753- 
1799) of New Hampshire, Captain in 16th Regiment 
Continental Infantry, Colonel John Patterson, 1776 ; 
taken prisoner at the "Cedars," 1 1777; and Aide-de- 
Camp to Major-General John Sullivan. 




282 



Total Membership, January 12, 1892, - 902 



flu /IDemoriam. 

Date of 

Initiation. Name. Died. 

1883. John Merchant. July 7, 1886. 

1884. Morey Hale Bartow. - - - 1886. 

1886. Thomas W. Chrystie, Jan. IS, 1888. 

1885. Edward William Tapp. Feb. 3. L888. 

1887. James A. Foster, - - March 10. L888. 
1SS3. Joseph W. Drexel, March 25, 1888. 
1883. George H. Potts. April 28. 1888. 

1886. N. W. T. Hatch, - - - May 8. 1888. 

1888. Rev. S. J. M. Merwin, Sept. 12. 1888. 

1888. Frederick A. Potts, - Nov. 9, 1888. 

1889. Peter Carpenter Baker, May 19, L889. 

1885. John Fitch, - Sept. 1. L889. 
1889. Richard Hoffman Benson, Sept. 29, 1889. 

1886. Edward Nicoll Dickerson, Dec. L2, L889. 
|ss7. James Renwick Gibson. Jr.. March 5, L890. 
issr. Thomas Storm, May I. L890. 
1886. Robert Ray Hamilton. Aug. 23, L890. 

1888. Charles Louis Fincke. - Nov. 11, 1890. 

1889. John Parker Prall. March 5, 1891. 
iss?. Bolton, James Clinton. March 28, 1891. 
1883. Boughton, George Washington Wright, April 1. 1891. 
1891. Ferry, Jedediah Baldwin, - July 28, 1891. 
1885. Benjamin, Frederick A.. - Oct. :;. 1891. 
L889. Lathrop, Francis H.. - - Nov. 15, 1891. 

1890. Woodruff, Henry Dwight, Nov. 29, L891 



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